Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some boards over his head. As the train pulled out for Trieste, the men went to work lining their tiny stateroom with the tar paper. Two days later they were in the Soviet zone of Austria-with the border of the U.S. zone just ahead. The Cechs ate and drank the last of their supplies, including a well-salted salami. Then the train stopped and began backing into Czechoslovakia again...
Grand Hotel. At a $75,000 white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...
...tall, fragile, handsome young man. He had moods of burning exhilaration. They were followed by moods of suicidal depression. He drank wildly. His father had committed suicide; Tom Buntin talked with animation of killing himself. One night his wife awakened, found him holding a pistol at his head and knocked the weapon aside. Buntin got so scandalously drunk one afternoon in September 1931 that he broke into the home of two horrified spinsters and was hauled off to jail. When he disappeared two days later, many of his friends believed he had left town to do away with himself...
...that the two were happy. In his way, Tom Buntin had met the harshness of life bravely enough. He lost jobs, but he always got new ones. He was cheerful and well liked, even by men who fired him. He became a good salesman and as the years passed, drank less and less. The Thomas D. Palmers lived for their children, and in the end their fortress was their big, respectable, close-knit family...
Hence 33 percent of the males and 92 percent of the females polled had never been drank, and two-thirds of the men and nine-fouths of the woman had never passed...