Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stagg," as he is still affectionately called, was always ready to join the fun-provided it was good, clean fun. He never allowed his players to swear on the field or in the locker room. He was a training-table model for his athletes because he never smoked or drank-not even coffee or tea. Always trying to improve the game, Coach Stagg devised one innovation after another-e.g., the tackling dummy (made from an old mattress), spread formation, tackle back shift and end-around plays...
...Infantry Major John (who last week received orders to report to the Far East this summer-see NEWS in PICTURES). She smokes Philip Morrises and plays canasta tirelessly. Until three months ago, when her doctor asked her to swear off alcohol because of a heart murmur, she drank old-fashioneds at parties...
...hotel and two huge, Italianate palaces in & around Sarasota, speculated in railroads and oil, was the first extensive collector of baroque paintings in America (because they were bigger than the paintings done in any other style). He lived high, wide & handsome, dressed like a raffish fashion plate, ate grossly, drank fine wines by the magnum and Jeroboam, kept pretty women about him, slept most of the day, and worked and played all through the night...
...horrors of German rearmament; now Russia promised Germany an army of its own. For seven years they had denounced ex-Nazis; now the Russians specifically invited ex-Nazis into a German army. French Communists were particularly embarrassed. It was the hardest thing to swallow obediently since Stalin drank a toast to Hitler...
...outburst of post-war maturity and frugality among the younger Americans carries some conditions. Those who drank pink champagne on the decks of the Normandie in '39 will tell you it isn't the same anymore. They are right. Their studied gaiety and extravagance has been replaced by a new desire to learn and appreciate, and, even more important, to leave a good impression of the United States with the European people...