Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ones who were up there are back in the village now. Two of them-Danos and Georgios -were with me in the voting line. But we're glad they've come back, and now all that's forgotten." Old Barba poured out some golden wine and drank a toast: "To something we all want: irene-peace...
Last week, in a sunny ward of the two-story children's hospital, Maria was getting a new look at life. For the first time she slept between sheets, drank milk. For the first time she ate three square meals a day. She had all the medicines she needed; her teeth had been checked and repaired. And everything-for Maria and the rest of the hospital's 125 small patients (aged 2 to 8)-was free...
Captain Karpe walking forward in the train to the diner. He passed through the crowded Bucharest day coach, sat down at a table with an American student. Karpe complained a bit about his aching leg, drank only a bottle of seltzer water for his meal. Then he left the table...
...residents of Neuilly and the Bois, like the concierge at the little fat one's own apartment, shook their heads in wonder ment. "He was such a man of the world," said the shattered concierge. "He had no vice except Benedictine liqueur, which he drank by the bottle...
...neither drank, smoked, gambled, nor married, took no interest in politics, science, art or literature; during the first 40 years of his life had no hobbies and no friends. Often after a long day's work he slept under the counter of one of his stores, too worn-out to go home. When his mother, the sole inspiration for his Spartan drive toward big money, died in 1889, he buried himself still more deeply in his work, spent his spare time shopping around for new products to stock. He settled...