Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shakespeare died five years later, at 52, of unknown causes-though one 17th century chronicler reported that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Anne outlived him by seven years, and asked to be buried in the same grave, but the authorities dared not flout Shakespeare's doggerel epitaph...
...dinner he drank toasts to Stalin, then Churchill, then Roosevelt, each time quaffing a full tumbler of vodka. One correspondent remembers his eyes: "bright, suspicious, ever moving, advertising the cunning thought, but also humorous and undaunted...
...neither smoked nor drank. In one of his few ventures at self-analysis, he said, "I think the trouble with me was that I grew up too fast, among people who were all far older than I was." Rita Hayworth offered another diagnosis: "Aly is very nice, but he really doesn't understand family life...
Yemenite Jews ate meat only about once a week. But they drank oceans of tea and coffee, and heady, 100-proof arrack distilled from citrus fruits and sugar-beet molasses...
...contact high," a sort of group excitement; 2) release from personal problems; and 3) a physical boost on road trips when they pull into a town after an all-day bus ride and have to play all evening. Said one player-who prefers drugs to alcohol: "If you drank feeling that tired, you'd fall on your face...