Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill, who at Kazvin with Russian officers drank bottoms-up vodka toasts to Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and "reunion in Berlin," radioed home an interesting ethnological note. After Abadan had been taken, the British commander received an offer of surrender from 500 Iranian troops that had crossed the river there and escaped. A veteran of the Libyan campaign and recalling Italian military mores, the British commander sent back word that if the 500 would appear at the ferry landing at 8 the next morning he would consent to make them prisoners. Next morning they...
...over the coast of France, he had bailed out, been found by the Germans, and was now a prisoner of war in Germany. When Pilot Bader parachuted to earth, he suffered no injury but some damage: one of his duralumin legs crumpled. While his pretty wife and some friends drank a champagne toast to him "wherever he was," the Luftwaffe sent a message to the R.A.F. through the Red Cross offering safe passage to any British pilot who would fly over with...
...Some of these youngsters were going westward on one of my trips on the Trans-Siberian. Their pockets bulged with cash. They drank vodka before breakfast and champagne with their meals. The meals alone cost $4 in American money - I was a piker in such company...
...Gladstone's taverns that night, loggers and their ladies drank toasts to King Jimmy and Queen Mary Jean before lapsing into the classic lumberjack's nightcap: all 42 verses of the ballad, The Jam on Garry's Rock...
...crafty and dominating, drank and cursed like her men friends, with whom she definitely...