Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would prefer Manhattans or Martinis to highballs, she would drink 3.8 gallons of beer per academic year, and the college bulletin would claim that she also drank 255 quarts of milk in the same period...
Union Station and drove through troop-lined streets, until his speech before Congress on Monday, he was on the move almost constantly. On his first night in Washington, he and Madame Auriol were feted by the Trumans with a dinner at the Carlton Hotel (they drank California burgundy). The next day he dropped by the White House for a chat and addressed the National Press Club. Later in the week he received a rousing ovation when he spoke to the Western Hemisphere foreign ministers (see HEMISPHERE). Between times he made a quick trip to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, visited...
...date, four-story hospital San Quentin boasts today. Over the years he had also brought a new standard of medical care to the convicts. Stanley began using spinal anesthesia (which he could administer unaided) long before most doctors, because the prison anesthetist (a convict) was a drunkard who habitually drank up all the medical alcohol in the surgery...
While passengers on the Queen Elizabeth lined the rails before dawn to cheer them off, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife Mamie boarded a tender, headed for Cherbourg dockside. At a breakfast reception in the customs shed, the general drank a champagne toast with Cherbourg's Mayor Edmond Soufflet, recalled that his arrival this time had been considerably easier than his Normandy landing more than six years ago, added seriously: "With God's help, and with all of us working together, we can keep peace." The general then boarded a plane for Paris and his new duties...
Once there was a writer who drank too much...