Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Sattidy at a cozy party given by the CRIMSON for in "wartime correspondents." Sat in the Sanetum Sanctorum Seat of Honor, and drank gallops of the punchiest punch Snowball over concocted. Parking our coast in the newsroom made us feel right home-sick for Ye Daily News and Yo Columbia Spectator office. Ah, College Days...
When Germany's Panzer divisions were hurled across the Russian border, Collier's Correspondent Alice-Leone Moats was waiting for them, repartee in hand. Asked, at a dinner in Moscow's Italian Embassy, if she knew how Italian officers drank toasts, "Moatsie" snapped: " 'No. All I know about Italian officers is that they pinch girls' behinds.'. . . The others broke into a guffaw...
...millions of city gardeners, this was the best time of year. They sent the children to bed early, switched off the radio, plugged the telephone bell and settled down for an evening with their dreams. They opened the new seed catalogues with trembling fingers, drank in the intoxicating colors of beet and carrot, rolled the poetry over on their tongues. While winter winds whistled outside, they luxuriated in a gentle world where all tomatoes grow to unblemished perfection, where eight-inch cucumbers are midgets, where every brussels sprout is a sonnet and bugs are never seen...
...harassed Raj, the action was belatedly graceful and politically wise. For the Congress it was a great moral victory. Bhansali drank a glass of msambi juice to break his fast. Crowds of Hindus garlanded his gaunt neck with flowers...
...greatest long-distance movement of holiday travelers on record. Rail-riding Gremlins (who were harrying railroad operations long before the Wright brothers ever flew) were out in force. They clogged switches with snow, short-circuited signal lights, froze steam connecting lines between cars, iced the rails on steep grades, drank all the coffee in dining cars. Morning after morning the swank Twentieth Century Limited slid into Manhattan two to four hours late. On many another train, four to 13 hours late, passengers stood in vestibules, slept in aisles, heaped baggage and bundles to roof tops...