Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly venomous hairy tarantula which catches and devours Presidents, senators, diplomats, congressmen and cabinet officers." After commissioning Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to build a memorial to Marian in Washington's Rock Creek Park, he took off on a slow boat to the South Seas. Like any tourist, he drank in the "purple mist and souffle" scenery, ogled the fetching island beauties. One erotic dance called for a kiss. "Mine was a good square kiss," Adams reported, "squarely returned...
...Egyptian commandos were posted with orders to let no one in or out. "This is the dirtiest trick in history," howled Tshombe. "It's unprecedented to imprison a visiting head of government." Forced to watch the conference on television, he refused to eat for fear of being poisoned, drank Katanga beer he had brought with him, and kept his four secretaries up all night typing protests to all 46 nations at the meeting...
...distinguished from non-U, monsters-a nice, funereal, bourgeois family like the Addamses of ABC. Fred Gwynne is Father; he consists of parts of seven people. Yvonne De Carlo is Mother. She tells her son: "Don't forget to wash behind your points." Grandfather last week drank a potion to turn himself into Mr. Hyde, and when he didn't turn, he said his suspicions were confirmed: somebody had been cutting the stuff. At a masquerade ball, Father won first prize for his own face. "I've never been so insulted," he said, "since...
...Constantine, the archbishop, his white beard bobbing, said: "Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches around thy table." The couple then drank three times from an enameled cup of wine, circled the altar in the traditional Dance of Isaiah as rose petals cascaded from the ceiling. As they marched down the aisle, a 101-gun salute began reverberating across the blue hills of Hellas, and all the bells of Athens began to peal...
...rocklike integrity and boundless Christian charity. Says one ex-pupil: "His kindness was overwhelming, without ever being in the least sentimental; without even, perhaps, .being personal. He raised the great beaker of his hope to my lips like a communion cup and watched with grave countenance as I drank, and when he took it away, I knew that it was because I had had enough...