Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something like that seems to them the logic of the situation. The logic is derived in part from shocking news-hitherto completely unsuspected in Britain-that the Englishmen in Singapore were all very rich, drank a great deal went to nightclubs and failed to inspire the natives to die for the Empire. The question of whether the natives of Malaya should have been given their freedom had apparently not been brought up. But it was indeed recalled that the Indians had requested freedom some time ago. And it was excessively annoying" to discover that such a simple-and presumably inexpensive...
...valued good painting when they saw it. He was an apt amateur diplomat in a day when diplomacy was not quite a profession. He was a prodigious worker (average: four to five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models. He suffered less mental anguish than many a stockbroker, never experienced creative paralysis. He got nearly everything he went after in his life: fame, social standing, money. A faithful husband and a good father, he poured on to canvas what he took care...
After that it was all bad. Somebody stole the milk and drank it all. They prayed for rain. Without water, they were afraid to eat the hardtack and chocolate. They ate seaweed and some of them drank sea water. Once they came within a few yards of a coral island, but the coral was so sharp that they could not wade ashore. Hunger, thirst and the Caribbean sun began to madden and kill them...
Though the gods drank nectar, pollen would have been far better for them: pollen (which is a male reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each...
...that the conqueror was surrounded, the men of the battalion alone among silent enemies, and no man might relax his guard for even a moment. If he did, he disappeared, and some snowdrift received his body. If he went alone to a woman, he disappeared. ... If he drank, he disappeared...