Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...island of Malta, British soldiers who drank infected goats' milk came down with the disease. Until recently it was widely known as Malta fever...
...plotted to murder "No. 1"-Stalin. Penalty: "physical liquidation." The men who succeeded in making old Rubashov confess ("To have laid out a Rubashov meant the beginning of a great career") were GPU Inquisitors Ivanov and Gletkin. Ivanov had been Rubashov's former schoolmate, former battalion commander. He drank, he doped a little, "but the vice of pity I have up till now managed to avoid. The smallest dose of it, and you are lost. . . . The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan...
...infantilism or call it what psychosis you will, which always takes possession of us when we find ourselves all alone in the great big, terrifying, dangerous, adult world. Remember last time, when we passed the strictest prohibition laws we could think up, put poison in the liquor, and then drank ourselves blind for 14 years...
...celebration, said the official news agency D.N.B., was one of "soldierly simplicity," including a brass band, a review of honor troops, toasts in champagne, a wooden platform for speechmaking, an international broadcast, armfuls of flowers, and certain other super-soldierly amenities. Each of the Nazi bosses drank a tasteful toast to the birthday man. Keitel: "Big and gigantic successes. . . ." Goring: "You, my Führer. . . ." Hess: "God protect our Führer...
...money began rolling in, Organizer Dorothy launched a series of "galloping tea parties,'' at which Dorothies drank, paid, went forth chain-letter fashion to brew more tea for more Dorothies. To date, the Provinces have been Blitz-teaed some 20,000 times, always with a Dorothy as hostess, though often with other-named guests...