Word: drank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some cities, local colleges and universities are beginning to help the schools with their bright students. Last summer the University of Texas organized an intensive five-week course in advanced chemistry for high-school juniors. It stirred up so much enthusiasm, says Education Dean L.D. Haskew, "that they ate, drank and slept chemistry, and they are regular missionaries back in their schools...
Clear-cut though his victory was, Diefenbaker's rise to the Tory leadership was not easy. The conservative old guard of the party has always regarded him as something of a misfit in their ranks. Baptist Diefenbaker seemed unsociable; he neither drank nor smoked, and joined none of the Tory clubs. He was a maverick in Parliament, campaigning for a Canadian Bill of Rights similar to that in the U.S. Constitution, and calling for stiffer antitrust laws while the Tory Party stood for pure British tradition and unfettered free enterprise. Even Diefenba-ker's Dutch-origin name...
...nonfiction books, three plays and a mass of journalism-were to deal with simpler people in a simpler world. He followed his own star-snarled destiny where it led, left his stepfather's shabby Oakland home to become an oyster pirate and precocious boozer in his teens. He drank enough redeye before he was 20 to make Lost Weekend seem like a short beer...
Trustless of their own experience, the Puritans had gotten best at minding other people's business. At the taverns, which followed the cows to Boston, the constable's duty was to see that nobody drank "more than was good for him." In time, however, some did, and the taverns caused various disturbances with England, including a war. In 1747, when a fire turned the General Court into a street, its members met at the Royal Exchange tavern where, later, the only duel ever to be fought on Boston Common was started...
...Little, Brown; $3.75), a book of autobiographical sketches and short stories, begins with a confession from one of the least reticent of men. "Before my first book was published I was not a drinker," declares Saroyan, "but the following nine years, until I was drafted into the Army, I drank as much as I liked, and I frequently drank steadily for nine or ten hours at a time ... I believe I have learned a lot while I have been drinking with friends, just as most of us may say we have learned a lot in sleep. There is, however...