Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll of an average Air Corps detachment showed that out of 100 soldiers, 58 drank no alcoholic beverages, 31 only beer, eleven hard liquor...
Concluded the OWI: "This is a civilian Army, as a Selective Service Army must be. Men do not change character when they put on a uniform. If they drank as civilians, they will probably drink as soldiers-but probably not so much. If they found their fun in tawdry places as civilians, they will hunt out the tawdry places as soldiers. . . . Because Selective Service is a lottery, it produces an Army which is nothing less than a cross section of the civilian population. Such an Army is certain to enroll a small percentage of delinquents, even actual criminals. These...
...trek of world dignitaries to Moscow in 1942 brought Stalin out of his inscrutable shell, revealed a pleasant host and an expert at playing his cards in international affairs. At banquets for such men as Winston Churchill, W. Averill Harriman and Wendell Willkie, Host Stalin drank his vodka straight, talked the same way. He sent Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov to London and Washington to promote the second front and jack up laggard shipments of war materiel. In two letters to Henry Cassidy of the A.P., Stalin shrewdly used the world's headlines to state the Russian case for more...
Then Captain Rickenbacker told how death came to a 22-year-old sergeant, the only crew member lost. He swallowed salt water when his raft overturned, drank more later, died of saltwater poisoning and starvation. Captain Eddie stared hard at the table in front of him: "On the eleventh night this boy was very low. The waves kept beating over the raft. . . . For two nights I cuddled him like a mother would, hold a child, trying to give him warmth from my body. At 3 a.m. I heard his final gasp. . . ." Then came the rescue by a Navy flying boat...
Thirteen torpedoed British merchant seamen scrambled from their swamped lifeboat into a half-ship they found floating in mid-Atlantic. They wolfed the canned chicken, hardtack and liquor they found, but their "SS Stern" settled slowly. When its deck was barely awash they had a farewell party They drank their fill and hornpiped to the jangling tones of a portable phonograph. None of them remembered much after that until a passing ship picked them...