Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Footloose Dancer Djuna was not the only one who was enthralled by Rango the Guatemalan Indian. Paris nightclub patrons who heard his songs "drank from his voice and his guitar." But it was Djuna who rented a barge on the Seine for him. There, while Djuna cried, "You are the God of Fire," and Rango kissed her feet, they "gave each other their many selves, avoiding only the more recent ones...
...picket the carbarn. Some wore flaming red armbands, others sported miniatures of the Communist flag that hung from the balcony of their union headquarters across the street. Inside headquarters, beneath a gigantic portrait of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song to the tune of "John Brown...
...their sons were to die in the two great wars to come; but that night at Windsor all seemed tranquil ahead for Britain and the Empire and the world. The Eton boys were astonished and delighted when an Indian servant handed the Queen a whisky & soda, which she drank, along with all Britain, on Mafeking night...