Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thaw (the real one, that is) was at its height in Moscow last week. Ice floes were in full flight down the river. At last the Kremlin's onion domes were bare of snow. In Sokolniki Park, small boys whooped after model planes and grownups silently drank up the sun. It was the time when, Chekhov wrote, "spring is ready to enter the soul...
...impressing them with the rich, free life under Soviet Communism. Instead, after mingling for the first time with their contemporaries from five continents, many young Russians seemed to be profoundly impressed by the free, privileged life that belongs to youth outside Russia. For three weeks, the visitors sang, drank and talked with open-mouthed Russian youngsters...
...life. She was so ugly that I am sure no one else would have wanted to give her milk. It was my milk that made Sophia beautiful, and now she doesn't even remember me. I gave milk to hundreds of children, but none of them drank as much as Sophia. Her mother gave me 50 lire a month. Sophia drank at least 100 lire worth of milk. Madònna mia!" Justice & Poetry. Scicolone dropped in on the Villani family in Pozzuoli from time to time, and soon Romilda had another daughter, called Maria. "That pig was free...
...Kentucky preacher boy made good, and all the credit goes to God." The conviction that "God is real has carried Dr. Billington from one triumph to another since he came to Akron. A square-built six-footer, he recalls an uncertain beginning back in Kentucky, where he smoked and drank in the pool halls of Paducah. He quit drinking in 1924, when he became a Christian, and quit smoking in 1927. when his son was born. When prayer ("Dear Lord, if you will let my dear baby Chuckie live") saved his son from a serious illness, Billington, then an Akron...
...Lisa Marie Bealo, whose photographer father reported: "We brought the baby home with a quart of formula. She wouldn't take it. She gagged and made a gurgling noise. She was supposed to have four ounces, but we managed to make her swallow only an ounce. She drank water though. We took her back to the hospital." A day and a half later, she died...