Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most just sat and talked of the violent events of the past days, speculated fearfully of violence still to come. But some also drank from jugs of the fiery illicit skokiaan until it was time to meet the evening trains from town. Drunk and angry, they grabbed stones, sticks and jagged pieces of metal to greet the few Africans who had disregarded Mourning Day and had gone in to work for the white man as usual. Forming a human chain across the tracks, one gang stopped a commuter train, dragged off the dozen Africans aboard and kicked and beat them...
Nosing about the Soviet Union, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, whose expedition is viewed by some as a qualifying round for the Republican vice-presidential nomination, drank up the sights in the fabled old Uzbekistan city of Samarkand. In his local ramblings, Lodge communed with the ages in the blue-domed ruins of the Bibi-Khanum Mosque, a 3½-acre wonder built by Tamerlane in 1399-1404 in memory of his favorite wife (of eight...
LIFT IN BEER raised per capita intake in 1959 for first time since 1948, as sales bubbled up 4.8% to record 89 million bbl. Average consumer drank 15.5 gal. v. 15 gal. in 1958. Top brewers...
...Razor." At Tokyo's Imperial University, Nobusuke Kishi majored in law and graduated with top honors; a friend recalls that he also "drank a lot of sake and knew a great many young Tokyo actresses." In the political arguments that raged at school, young Kishi emerged as a conservative and a fiery nationalist. His hero was Kita Ikki, a right-wing radical who wanted Japan run by a military junta and called for the conquest of Manchuria and Siberia. Kishi was less happy about Ikki's attacks on private property and free enterprise; when some of Ikki...
...Actor Art Carney kept dialing telephone numbers, bugging long-distance operators, playing the sole part in a TV play about a sinking alcoholic. Desperately using the phone as a lifeline to the real world, he talked to his exwife, his daughter, his new fiancee and some old friends; he drank and wept, offered the drunk's typical, hopeless apologies, made glib cracks, and laughed with the sound of wind crossing a row of empty bottles. Call Me Back, a creditable but excessively maudlin first TV drama by Gagwriter Tony Webster, helped Art Carney add a superbly handled tour...