Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from which Rahabaat drank...
...Shao apparently forgot about the Babylonians who were appeasing their gods with a genial mild-and-bitter (brewed from wheat and honey) almost 40 centuries earlier, circa 6,000 B.C. Genesis 9:21 notes that after the Flood Noah "drank of the wine, and was drunken." The ancient Egyptians, too, were prodigious tipplers: according to his temple inscriptions, Pharaoh Ramses III (c. 1198-1167 B.C.) personally stood the gods 466,303 jugs of beer...
...drank orange juice at cocktail parties. He steered a sightseeing boat in the Harlem River at the invitation of its skipper. He inspected a 50-million-barrel-a-year oil refinery in New Jersey, was told that it handles 50 times more oil than his whole country produces, and was handed a chunk of hot synthetic rubber. He was flown from New York to Washington, was taken to the White House for lunch with the President. Among the guests were both Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Harry Vaughan. The King shook hands and smiled, impartially...
...Seoul last week, Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet drank from the cup of pessimism. "To me," he said, "recent trends indicate less chance of an armistice than ever before." Van Fleet noted that the Communist army commanders, apparently sharing his view, had "spread out" their front-line forces "to wait out the end of the war." Van Fleet offered a familiar but often disregarded antidote to the poisonous gloom which has settled over Korea: "The best way to win this war is by bringing pressure on the enemy, inflicting more casualties and damage than he can take...
...first of them when this was done, 'Now for a drink. Sit down and let's be merry. For later on there'll be the corpse to bury.' And, so it happened, reaching for a sup He took a bottle full of poison up And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, Drank from it also, and they perished both...