Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final attempt, London's big dailies wrote long, persuasive feature stories. The Ministry of Health fired a barrage of publicity. Leaflets explained "Why You Should Let Your School Children Go." Its advertisements asked: "Mothers, Are Your Children Still in the Danger Areas?" Six hundred door-to-door canvassers drank thousands of cups of tea in thousands of kitchens, patiently explained reasons for evacuation. All told, about 40,000 more children were sent away, but the rest would not go. President of the Board of Education Herwald Ramsbotham threw up his hands, admitted: "Compulsory evacuation of school children is politically...
...During the dinner the Stevedores drank a toast to "His Majesty the King of England...
Though he loves his own power, he has made love to the ideals of democracy. Diplomats and barefoot peasants drank champagne together on his birthday. On the eve of the Battle of Britain he suspended agitation for return to Guatemala of British Honduras on the ground that no Latin could kick a prostrate...
...odds, when they learned that the Yugoslavs could not help the Greeks unless the Turks did and the Turks would not move until the Russians told them to, when they realized how little practical support the British could give, they were grave. They gathered in coffee houses and drank thick Turkish coffee and sipped their ouzo, as colorless and full of kick as corn likker...
...diners the reporters drank thousands of whiskeys-&-sodas, gloomed over the candidate's daily mistakes, over Willkie's inability to get political, mourned the low quality of cocktails on trains, wrote millions of words, ran endlessly back to the rear platform over gravel and cinders to observe the crowds, rode for hours in cars through cities that looked almost the same, sat listening while Willkie hammered away at his message, his voice hoarse with urgency as well as weariness: "Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong." Reporters got so they could chime...