Word: drank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...opened up and Kerans felt a shell whoosh past his neck, but the Amethyst was untouched. Then she began to flood from a waterline shell hole suffered in the first day's attack. In the engineroom the depleted crew of eleven worked at temperatures up to 170 degrees, drank ten gallons of tea during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo sounder. One thing was sure: the Amethyst had to hit the narrow opening in the boom or "she would slice off her bottom." As she approached...
...craziness of bullfights." Later, there was an informal buffet supper, where Ecuador's President and 600 other guests consumed 15 barbecued lambs, two calves, 30 turkeys, 5,000 tortillas, 60 kilograms of beans, 14 gallons of mole, six gallons of chili sauce, three barrels of pulque (Plaza drank two glasses and liked...
Fall from Grace. In Milwaukee, after being awarded a National Safety Council medal for two years of safe driving, Truck Driver George Pratt went to a ball game where he drank eight bottles of beer and a slug of whisky, adjourned to a tavern where he tossed down two more beers, headed for another saloon, missed a turn, caromed off a telephone pole, was robbed of his medal, called the cops, was sentenced to ten days...
...Galo Plaza; the guests included a lot of the faces the Ecuadorian had seen the night before. Afterward, the visitor, who had no work to do, bade good night to protocol, flashed off to a gay affair given by Cuba's peppery Ambassador Luis Machado, danced and drank champagne till 3 a,m. Asked later who was there, Machado said: "Just our favorite people-and the prettiest girls in Washington."* The third night, protocol reigned again: it was Galo Plaza's turn to stage" the dinner, at the Statler Hotel, and all the people, including the President...
...more the tears came. Loud-speakers began playing the "International" and then a Chinese song: "East is Becoming Red, the Sun is Rising in the East." Liberation army men and cadres rushed up and helped us with our hand baggage. Then we were invited into the train station, drank tea, and chatted...