Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen more at other top galleries in Europe and the U.S. Manhattan's Metropolitan, Whitney and Modern Art museums bought his work; so did such collectors as Nelson Rockefeller and Peggy Guggenheim. But Congdon shrank from success. He traveled widely through the Mediterranean in search of new images, drank as a stimulus to creation. "Each painting," he wrote, "seemed to redeem me, as the life-ring saves the drowning man. I began to see in each painting a stay against the eventual death sentence...
...reasonable, realistic address on the shrinking world, the limits of the United Nations and the new interests of India in the world. He arrived sitting beside his chauffeur, greeted his audience without rush, spoke with very humble humour and stayed an hour for questions over coffee (which he drank...
...glass of milk that has been chilled for precisely 15 minutes in a Deepfreeze. Other members of Kennedy's official family are falling into line. Last week, holding one of his daily press briefings, News Secretary Pierre Salinger passed glasses of milk around to reporters. All gamely drank, including Salinger...
...Michigan, Christmas was hay rides, throaty caroling and hot chocolate. In New England, it was plum pudding and frosty trees. In the German immigrant towns of Wisconsin, the old men drank cognac and Löwenbräu and listened damp-eyed to old recordings of long-gone Rhineland carillons. In Georgia, the holiday mornings began with bacon, eggs, red-eye gravy, biscuits, grits, deer sausage, fried catfish, cornbread, buttermilk, waffles, French toast, hotcakes and heaps of fruit. In the afternoon the womenfolk gathered in the big kitchen to prepare scalloped oysters and smoked turkey, fried chicken and black-eyed...
...Motors Corp.'s Milwaukee body plant has been notorious as the most inefficient of the company's four U.S. auto plants. On its assembly line, workers lounged uninterestedly amid the sheet metal, amused themselves with such pranks as exploding firecrackers with their welding torches. A few regularly drank on the job, putting away so much of Milwaukee's famous beer that on occasion they tried to turn out eight-door Ramblers. As the shenanigans mounted, body shipments to A.M.C.'s hard-working final assembly plant at Kenosha, Wis., dwindled-so much so that in recent weeks...