Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lebanon that cries of panic and defeat resounded throughout the West, increased by hints of "volunteers'' from the East. Headlines, further exaggerating newspapers' excited stories, spoke of tanks, planes and troops locked in "raging" battle for Lebanon and the whole Arab world. Wherever diplomats drank, voices were heard forecasting that the West was headed for a second Suez, and demanding to know when the West was going to face up to Nasser. U.S. Senator John Kennedy declared that the U.S. stood on the brink of war, while Columnist Joe Alsop cried that another Munich...
...cups of water were poured over screens of khus-khus grass to cool homes, and millions of Indians drank curd milk mixed with salt, the superstitious villagers of Uttar Pradesh put slices of onion beneath their turbans and hung garlic on their fans in the belief it would ward off sunstroke. In Madras black pepper was rubbed on the head of the elephant god to create "such a burning sensation that he will gush forth rain." The prayers were answered last week in some parts of India with the arrival of the welcome monsoon, though not in the hard...
...lose their reputation for virtue in order to support repeal or modification of the liquor laws. Pennsylvania, however, was the exception to the rule, and the Quakers registered a majority dry vote. Princeton, naturally enough, had the wettest vote. Over 79 per cent of the Tigers admitted that they drank...
Young Buonaparte in his scrounging days amused the salons by decking himself in napkins and tablecloths to give improvisations. He cheated at games, drank his coffee out of the saucer, courted well-placed mistresses to get quartermaster handouts for his uniforms, proposed to women years his senior to land a fortune. In the end he settled for the wanton Creole widow, Rose-Josephine de Beauharnais. A French marriage, he felt, would make him French, and he changed his name accordingly, dropping the "u." Later he admitted that Josephine had come straight from another lover's bed, but there...
Across the Gobi they sputtered. The drivers soon found that the trial was as much a test of men as machines. Dried out by the desert, the travelers drank the oily water from their radiators to keep alive. They used blowtorches to heat their meals when they could not bear using camel dung as fuel. Bridges collapsed under them, their cars sank hub deep in mud or sand, brakes gave way and the cars slid down steep, rocky hillsides. The Tri-Contal gave up its tiny ghost, but the other four somehow made it to the Siberian border...