Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a group of seven merry Italian vacationists dropped in at Juliet's castle and persuaded Innkeeper Enrico Piazza to join them in an evening of cards and dining well washed with the white Soave wine of Verona. The innkeeper accepted with a will, romped and drank with the visitors until long after closing time. At last his guests drove off in two cars and a small truck, and Piazza set about locking up the tavern. When he got to Juliet's room, a cold chill gripped his heart. Gone were the bedstead, the wardrobe...
...excited." Dominick moaned, and his blackened head dropped. But at 2:40 in the afternoon, as the excavators reached him and began digging the dirt away from his legs he was still conscious and still uncomplaining. He asked for a bottle of Coca-Cola and drank...
When Middleground and Hill Prince ran one-two in the Kentucky Derby, a big, paunchy, 73-year-old man solemnly rose in his paneled office at New York's Belmont Park and drank a silent toast to himself. Five months before, John Blanks Campbell had closed the office door, sat down with his file of last year's two-year-olds and decided that Middleground would be the three-year-old to beat. In his Experimental Free Handicap weights, he rated Middleground at the top with 126 lbs., about a length better than Hill Prince...
...catch a cold-you have it," Dr. Kerr told how he and fellow workers at the University of California tried to infect subjects with another person's cold. People without colds would play cards or work jigsaw puzzles for hours next to a sneezing, sniffling victim; others drank from glasses smeared with a cold sufferer's sputum. Even so, said Dr. Kerr, his healthy subjects failed to catch colds...
...towel. I watched Stella's manager rescue her from her group of admirers, and lead her over to the buyers and the fourth estate. The bartender looked up. "Funny thing," he said, "We had a party for some French people here a few weeks ago, and all they drank was champagne...