Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a phony Ukrainian accent, put on an embroidered Ukrainian shirt and wore a kartuz (workingman's cap). He went everywhere, bawling out party organizers, bureaucrats and collective farm managers, but he listened carefully to the agricultural experts sent in from Moscow. He exchanged quips with the farmers, drank buckets of vodka, and got a laugh out of most situations. Behind the facade of bonhomie he was ruthlessly liquidating all who stood in the way of Stalin's plans. Stubborn peasants were turned over to his friend, NKVD Colonel Ivan Serov. and shipped off in boxcars to Siberia...
...Happy Time. In Windsor, Ont., onetime Great Lakes Ship Captain Wellington B. Sphears, celebrating his 107th birthday, explained his long life: "I drank plenty of whisky and smoked all the black cigars I wanted. I still do when they'll give them...
...When he died in 1805 on the deck of his Victory after Trafalgar, Lord Nelson was deposited in a cask of brandy for the long trip home. The legend that sailors tapped the cask and drank off the brandy is apparently apocryphal...
...about a very live Premier Nikolai Bulganin,, At a party at the Danish embassy, which Nikita Khrushchev was too busy to attend, Bulganin roared toasts to every toastable cliche. At one excited peak he grabbed a martini and fervently cried: "Eisenhower opened the martini road in Geneva! We sometimes drank with him, in the intervals, in martinis to peace and friendship in the world." Feeling extremely euphoric, Bulganin then lurched over to a U.S. military attache, guffawed and grabbed his ear, droolishly whispered: "Someday we're gonna have peace!" Rough box score on the number of martinis downed...
...years as Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts' Seventh District, Thomas J. Lane shouted no loud hurrahs. He went after no headline-making legislation, built up no powerful machine; his campaigning was neither colorful nor costly. He dressed unostentatiously, usually in blue suits; he neither drank nor smoked nor went out on the town nights; he read almost nothing but magazines and the newspapers (at bedtime, as sedatives) ; he owned a Cadillac he did not like to drive. His great pleasure, it seemed, was to stop strangers in the streets, in buses, in soda fountains, where he would talk understandingly about...