Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before sunrise, a great procession, led by naked, ash-smeared holy men and gold-caparisoned elephants, trod solemnly toward the winter stream in a clamor of conch shells and cymbals. With ritual reverence, the first pilgrims rubbed the water into their skin and their eyes, then drank it. They believed from their scripture legends that they might thereby speed to Nirvana and be spared the pain of countless rebirths in man's universe...
Nepenthe. In Detroit, John Vlaikov, 64, arrested for drunkenness, explained that he seldom drank, but had gone out on a spree after his wife Theresa, 70, came home and announced that she had just bought 35 hats and 40 dresses...
...fact that he couldn't ski did not bother Vag too much, because although it snowed everyday, most of the people said the conditions were not right. Instead they sat around in the hotel and played rhumba, samba, canasta, and bridge and drank considerable. Before long any beginner could talk skiing with the best by slipping in an occasional "christy" or "slalom...
...stuff in his pocket, got a bottle of champagne, called on his parents and joyously announced that he had got a job. He poured three glasses of wine, added cyanide to two of them, and asked his parents to join him in a toast to his future. They drank and toppled to the floor...
Scotch & Democracy. Mlle. de Beauvoir did not like the taste of whisky, but at one point she drank Scotch until 3 in the morning "because Scotch is the key to America." She was astonished at the "sudden warmth and cordial simplicity" of Americans, and "American generosity" left her "feeling ashamed." In fact, she liked Americans so much that she wrote: "How I regretted that I could not feel more generously towards a country where the reign of man asserts itself so bravely...