Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rivera directed them to a friend's house, roused a woman there, and emerged a half hour later to advise Eliot, who by that time had the chills, "Your tea is ready." Eliot drank the tea, which tasted like nothing he had ever encountered before, and insisted on knowing what was in it. The woman said it would be better if he didn't, and gave him a second cup. Finally, she said: "It's an Indian recipe - my grandmother's. It's made of powdered cockerel's whiskers." "That may be," says Eliot...
...around the walls, even over the bar mirror, tasteful, powder-blue signs proclaimed in red letters: "Spring is here and so is the 5? beer." The early birds drank and took their change in mild disbelief. The nickel wasn't obsolescent after all. The word spread. Sam's bar & grill started to bulge like Madison Square Garden on fight night. People drank, shook hands with strangers and sang...
After flying down to Rio, and running a gantlet of unhurried customs men, they sprawled on curving Copacabana Beach, drank mild guarana in the cafés, and stared at the jungled hillsides, splashed with the purple bloom of the quaresma, the "tree of Lent...
...tropical stops. On the 8½-hour hop across the South Atlantic to Dakar, plane riders learned how uneventful a trip could be: in hours of staring out the window, a pair of rocks in mid-Atlantic called Peter & Paul was all there was to see below. They talked, drank cocktails, ate from trays, played gin rummy, and waited for the ocean to end at Dakar. Some flew the new air trade route south to "Jo'burg" (Johannesburg). Others went north to Lisbon where they found the almond trees blooming by day and the mournful fado echoing...
...around for un hour, rationalized the whole thing to convince ourselves we would win at least $50, and drank beer. Hard drinks are never served at pyramid parties. Heads must be steady when filling out daily charts...