Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will do for Sachs himself. At one time or another he was a prominent editor, a leading art dealer, a playwright and producer. But he was also consumed with self-loathing-and with sufficient reason ("I always," he writes, "had a little too much dung on my soul"). He drank prodigiously (he could down a full bottle of whisky before breakfast), swindled his friends indiscriminately, and records with obvious relish how he gulled the daughter of a Presbyterian minister into a marriage of convenience only to desert her two months later for a homosexual alliance with...
...design. For motifs they used the swamp and sea creatures that they knew best-the frog, snake, shark, turtle, crab and crocodile. These ancient masters also made the malleable metal wriggle with curvilinear life: 2-in.-thick ear plugs, nose pendants, golden mustachios that covered the mouth. They drank from gold goblets and spangled themselves with baubles that were hinged to bounce in the light. They abstracted condors into broadtailed triangles and sought symmetry in two-headed animals...
...real "heroes of labor" on the Aswan job were the Egyptian fellahin. Swarming to the site in quest of the relatively high pay (up to $1.20 a day including overtime), the Egyptians often slept under tarpaulins that flapped in the blast-furnace desert wind, ate their rice and drank their syrupy tea mixed with sand. When blasting shocks crumpled a temporary dam above the diversion channel last July, and the onrushing Nile threatened 5,000 workers in the incompleted turbine shafts, thousands of fellahin swarmed in with sand and other fill, saved the whole project from disaster. An amazing spirit...
...backyard, piled them with cookies, stocked them with pitchers of pink punch, called for a press conference and in vited reporters to bring along the wife and kiddies. More than 1,000 turned up. The Marine Band played Merrily We Roll Along, Jingle Bells and America. The children drank the punch, crumbled the cookies, meditatively tore up tufts of the White House lawn and, with a certain amount of nudging from their mothers, laughed politely when Lyndon told them: "I want to prove to you that your fathers are really on the job-sometimes...
...some hours later, that visa was extended by Sihanouk's announcement that all journalists would be admitted. Pace sat through a riot alert at the threatened U.S. embassy, spent an hour and a half in private conversation with the Prince over glasses of pink champagne, which neither man drank, and finally joined the dinner party, where, he reported, "the food was excellent and the lettuce the best in the world." Then he flew out to file his report from Hong Kong...