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Word: drank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blame anyone for my alcoholism...she said, "but I think I had the problem from the very beginning, though I never drank until I was 18. All I remember is drinking two drinks. I drank to get drunk. I think people who are unsure of themselves or have inferiority complexes are prone, because alcohol gives you false courage. But it was always there, that wasn't the problem. It was admitting it that hurt...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: The Forgotten Americans | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

...modern "Atillas" bear any resemblance to the dignified pastimes of Neanderthal Man. Indeed, the Neanderthal Men used eating utensils, played musical instruments, took snuff in moderation, and worked crossword puzzles in their spare time. These noble primates were unfortunately driven into extinction by our own aggressive ancestors, who drank white wine with steak, picked their noses with their thumbs, and made off-color variations on epigrams like "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noble Neanderthals | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

...Morgoth whispered in the ear of Fëanor, to trouble him further. Together they came to Valinor and Morgoth pierced the two sacred trees with his spear and Ungoliant drank their light's blood from out of them and the two creatures escaped and a twilight settled upon the world. And the Valar called Fëanor to them and asked him to give up his Silmarils so that there might be light. But Fëanor would not. At that moment Morgoth attacked Fëanor's distant castle and took the jewels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Middle-Earth Genesis | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...happened on the financial front this week. First, almost 300 alumni gathered last weekend under a tent at Eliot House, where they drank to their own success as fundraisers for the Harvard College Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Fiscal Front | 10/8/1977 | See Source »

Members last night ate twelve kinds of cookies, drank pink punch from the club's engraved silver punch bowl and signed up for activities ranging from children's parties to "cosmopolitan" evenings of armchair world travel...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: News Shorts | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

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