Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another woman, 30, rarely drank herself, but when her dipsomaniac husband sobered up after periodic weeklong binges, she became so upset that she went on eating jags, gained 10 Ibs. in two weeks. ''I'd rather he drank." said she simply...
...Character? Booze never bothered Eric Portman, said Kim's understudy, Nancy Malone. "Like most British actors, he drinks during a performance. Sometimes he drank a little too much, but he was never falling down or out of control." Said Portman, who gives the leading man's lines with a muffled Yorkshire accent: "The character himself is a drunk. He starts out a drunk, and he's a drunk all the way through. I like to think that my behavior indicated this...
Strength of his Convictions. In Ross-on-Wye, England, John Wanklyn waited to appear in court for drunkenness, stepped out during the court's lunchtime adjournment, drank five pints of beer, four pints of cider, four shots of Scotch...
Wintergreen for Laxative. In New York City last week a longshoreman, 62, went to his medicine cabinet in the dark seeking castor oil, pulled out the wrong bottle and drank 2 oz. of oil of wintergreen. He was soon in convulsions and a raging fever, and threatened with death from brain damage. Rushed to Bellevue Hospital, he was stretched out beside the artificial kidney, which was primed with two pints of blood containing heparin to prevent clotting. Attending doctors from Cornell University put a cannula into the radial artery in the patient's wrist, connected this by polyethylene tubes...
...Sorry. Anyway, I was afraid I'd spill stuff all over the nice rug. So I drank some. So now there was less in the glass than there was before, but now I was less steady, so I had to drink some more to keep it from spilling on the rug. So after awhile the glass became a pitcher, and the pitcher became a barrel, and the barrel became a hogshead, until finally I was tied in with a direct pipeline that was connected up to all the gin and tonic in the world. There I was, trying to drink...