Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four times Chloe fetched her mother a drink, each time drank a little water herself. On one trip to the sink she heard a whimper from Marquis, who was lying on the kitchen floor. "I went back and asked mother if I shouldn't put Marquis out of his misery. She nodded, so I went and hit him about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father...
Besides being shy, Bob (Taft) was a painfully industrious apprentice. . . . He hardly smoked, he rarely drank, he did not stay up late. Yet his worthiness was not of the trying kind that disdains the company of publicans and sinners. At Yale he made friends. . . . "Life" Magazine...
...sudden thawing of some great northern river, the peace let loose a worldwide flood of emotions - sorrow, anger, fear, pride, guilt, frustration, shock, hatred. On the one side, tearful Finns quoted an old Nordic saying: "Sorrows are our reins, bad days our bridle." On the other, the Russians laughed, drank beer, slapped each other's backs, praised their Red Army "defenders." But among the friends and foes of each side there was a bitter search for reasons, a hunt for scapegoats, a vindictive beating back & forth of the shuttlecock of blame...
...drank himself into a legend. At his parties he scorned champagne for alternate sips of vodka and hot water. One morning at breakfast a friend offered him sugar and milk to put into a cup which he had just filled from a teapot. "What!" exclaimed the Yuvaraja, "in whiskey...
...sounded the Whites' battle cry: "We who did not flee from Russia but only retreated, our weapons in our hands, are ready now to return." Up to last week the challenge had had only two results: White Russians everywhere lifted champagne to their lips and drank to the challenge, and in Paris last week the price of pre-Soviet Russian bonds jumped 300% in value-from 5.6? to 20?. They still had quite a way to go to reach their pre-Soviet par value...