Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...village elders, dressed in black gowns over white robes, advanced in greeting, preceded by the ly-truong, or village chief. We sat around a rectangular table and drank hot tea and tepid beer. A sharp-nosed, black-eyed young man called Nguyen Van Tin explained about the Anti-Communist Youth League, which he had founded last fall...
Home from an eleven-week concert tour of Europe, Bandman Duke (Mood Indigo) Ellington reported that he was 16 Ibs. lighter. The secret: "I gave up coffee, tea, and water in Germany-drank nothing but that wonderful German beer. This stuff gets inside you and you feel it's doing something good down there...
...goodby party King Paul pinned on the general's jacket the second highest Greek decoration, the George I cross. Van Fleet drank His Majesty's health in grape juice (the Van Fleets are teetotalers), and said: "I should like to say that the one setback I had in Greece was when I asked Her Majesty the Queen not to come to the front. She did not listen to me." Frederika smiled impishly. Paul replied, "It was our duty...
Last week there were some signs that the Russians were about to show their conciliatory, or Uncle Joe, side. In some capitals, Russian diplomats turned out in force for the first time in several years for U.S. Embassy Fourth of July parties. They drank American toasts, acted as though they wanted to be friends, much as they had done during World...
...horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants had been assembled for the occasion), drank a slug of bourbon, nibbled some hors d'oeuvres, shook hands with his host, and was on his way again...