Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...licensee who has sold alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated person." Quoting a lower court approvingly, Judge Nathan Jacobs said that the law barring sales to drunks would be "meaningless, if a tavernkeeper could avoid responsibility by claiming that it was the person's own fault if he drank too much." Those who obtain liquor licenses "do so with the full awareness that the public is entitled to receive high measures of protection from abuses...
...Hungary popped the fewest corks in Europe, with 2,188 bottles. The Congolese were Africa's heartiest drinkers, with 104,976 bottles, Zambians the most austere, with only 1,344. Nowhere was the contrast more marked than in Viet Nam. South Viet Nam, with undoubted American help, drank up 63,242 bottles. North Viet Nam, however, ordered only 872, barely enough for some diplomatic receptions for visiting Frenchmen...
...Harvard community. Included among these we would suggest her classic ingenue as Marjorie Morningstar or at the very least her tasteful and deeply felt rendering of Gypsy Rose Lee's admirable career. Her sportsmanship in visiting the Poon has certainly improved since she pushed Tony Curtis in the drank in Sex and the Single Girl. But then again, Miss Wood has come a long way since she sat on Santa Class...
...that when a latecomer called Charles Darwin offered a consolatory dram of booze to the muted inhabitants of what he called "the fallen paradise," they rose to the occasion with noble savagery. Gravely they put their fingers before their lips. Solemnly they uttered the word "missionary." But then they drank...
...members of the present Administration. They think it is ugly, and, for that reason alone, would be happy to see it go. (Apparently, many Faculty members feel the same way; when the building caught fire in the 50's, some Faculty members reportedly stood across the street and drank champagne to its demise.) But Harvard is, and has been, willing to tolerate the presence of buildings it dislikes on aesthetic grounds. More compelling reasons insure the eventual destruction of Memorial Hall...