Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circled the world in 28 days (on its side the plane had "Mission to Moscow" painted in bright yellow letters in English and Russian). Nine of those days he spent in Moscow; five of the nine in bed with his pills because of his ailing stomach. (He drank no vodka at state dinners.) He had two interviews with Joseph Stalin, for a total of seven and a half hours, looked up many an old friend from his Ambassadorial days...
...Children Drink. 'The cases fell into five main classes: 1) children who drank to escape an unbearable situation; 2) children whose drinking was an expression of their attitude toward others, e.g., a boy drinking to spite his drunken father; 3) "latent or overt homosexuals"; 4) psychopathic personalities; 5) psychotics. Examples...
...sick. Mary had to manage her younger brother, and cook. Her father did not like her cooking and beat her. Mary's solace was the wine which all the children had at each meal. "She wished for death, and, feeling she might achieve this by excessive drinking, drank more than a tumblerful of wine every night. . . ." She wound up in the hospital, sick and stuporous after drinking a pint of wine. After her sister got well and her father hired a housekeeper, Mary's thirst disappeared. In fact, the idea of wine nauseated...
...Bermuda had ended in rationalizations. The disease of anti-Semitism festered among the exiled Poles and throughout the world was infecting minds which thrived on prejudice and bigotry. Zygielbojm was only one man, and a tired one. He went to a closet, took down a bottle of poison and drank...
After three days, the tax deadlock was broken. The Governor's compromise had won. Harold Stassen drank a glass of milk in celebration. To the Governor's office came tall, husky Lieut. Governor Ed Thye (pronounced "thigh"), Harold Stassen's hand-picked successor. Said Ed Thye: "Governor, if you hadn't staked all your chips on me, I wouldn't be where I am today, and I want you to know I appreciate it." Said Harold Stassen, with proper modesty: "You did it yourself...