Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Centenarians differ widely in their views of what helped them to live so long. One will say it is because he smoked, drank, and another that it is because he did not smoke or drink. One old lady gave the credit to having had apple pie for breakfast every morning. But most would agree with the 103-year-old man in McHenry, Ill. who said: "If you want to live long, never lose your temper." What do they eventually die of? Not, as a rule, from the diseases of old age. It seems to Dr. Dunbar that most of them...
Every day Churchill was up at 11, ate a large breakfast washed down with sherry, had a massage, started on Martinis at 1, and capped them with "a bounteous lunch" at 1:30, drank cocktails or sherry from 5 until dinner at 8, "lots of champagne at dinner," then brandy, and worked until 3 or 4 a.m. Wrote Columnist McCormick: "The colonel is a fair trencherman himself, but the Englishman's capacity amazed...
...changed too but not radically. He has been content to lope along an endless Chisholm trail of escape that carries millions of readers to happy endings. He has always been modest about his success, has never thought of himself as a "literary" man. He rode with the Arizona Rangers, drank in campfire tales, covered many of the cattle and mining wars. He looks back with comfortable nostalgia on the people of the Old West. "Any of them would have ridden 30 miles to fetch you a doctor or they'd share their last bit of grub with...
...Lucien, 5, a sickly, insomniac youngster, was so unstable that he could not be left alone. The son of wealthy parents, he drank nothing but undiluted wine, in accordance with his father's decree: "Water propagates infantile paralysis...
...wine areas, many children take a swig every time the jug is passed. In the Vendée, a local health officer asked a farmer's wife why her two infants were flushed and screaming. Explained the mother placidly: "Last night was the Communion supper. They drank one more Triple Sec than usual...