Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grated Nerves. The Maryland Chemical Center resentment flared one night last September after 100 ESPPs hired a nearby boat club for a party. Togged in civilian clothes, they drank beer, played bridge, settled down to sing homemade songs.* Irked by the noise and obscenity, neighbors called the cops. State troopers, accompanied by an Army Criminal Investigation agent, swooped out of the bush, grabbed a handful of men while the majority filtered into the darkness. When the handful was ordered court-martialed, the trial became a celebrated case. ESPPs at the Chemical Center and other ESPP "campuses" chipped...
...researchers found that the two groups ate, drank, smoked and exercised about the same. But the driving men had significantly higher levels of cholesterol (a substance involved in atherosclerosis) circulating in their systems, their blood had a shorter clotting time, and they had about seven times as much heart disease...
...have the audiences been canceled?" He received Holy Communion and Extreme Unction from his German Jesuit secretary, Father Robert Leiber, but he peeked at the thermometer when his temperature was being taken and said "non é grave" when he saw it was only 99°. That night he drank a glass of red wine and called for a recording of Beethoven's First Symphony. At 7:30 the next morning, a second stroke left him unconscious. But it took his stubborn body nearly 20 hours...
Subdivided Gum. Stagg was revolted by the drunkenness that he saw among his friends' parents in West Orange. "There wasn't one of my playmates who had a show in life, because their fathers drank every week," he says. So Stagg never drank. And beyond a couple of corn silks as a kid, he has never smoked. The one chink in Stagg's Spartan do-without-it armor is candy. He has always kept sourballs or similar hard candies on his dining table, has also allowed himself the smallest of indulgences in the smallest of ways...
Some men died quietly from wounds or exhaustion. Scores drank sea water and died in agony. The living fought to tear the life jackets from the dead. (Some did not even wait for the dying to die.) There were mass hallucinations: there was an island with a hotel, and somebody was telephoning but the hotel was full. Still, some threw off their life jackets and swam "to the island" and to their deaths...