Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night the wind blew steadily out of the north, kicking up a chilling spray; during the day, the sun beat down unmercifully on the surviving pilgrims and the two sailors. They had little bundles of water-soaked food which they ate. There was no fresh water. Some pilgrims drank salt water. Four child pilgrims lost their hold on the tower and slipped into the sea. The sharks glided in to claim them...
...Eddie is in lower gear; his speech is deliberate, his gestures wider and slower. He is talking then of his beloved Ireland. "Last summer, Frank O'Connor (Eddie's good friend), Kelleher, and myself read some Irish poetry in one of the House rooms. It was murderously hot. We drank beer, and Frank read. I tell you, it must have been the heat . . . but that poetry, the tears ran down my face...
...mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer of 1942 (with four victims); the Vampire, who killed at least nine between 1944 and 1949, and ceremoniously drank a glass of each victim's blood. Now there was the Strangler of Notting Hill...
...They drank a good,deal, and there was a raw bitterness in their talk. "Some bastards still think Kukes are human," said a red-faced young man, hitching up his gun belt and gulping brandy. "They aren...
...Black Man who wore the belt." Johnson, who was disconcertingly tough and disconcertingly outspoken, openly intimated that he was as good, or better than any man who ever lived, and the hysteria grew. Saloon orators cried that Li'l Arthur had a skull an inch thick and drank beer through a straw. What worse could be said...