Word: drank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hosts' home, a variety of alcoholic beverages served at the party was unusual. Most of the time we drank nothing stronger than Inca Kola. A piss-yellow soft drink with the taste of bubble gum, Inca Kola manages to more than hold its own against the foreign invader, Coke. In Peru soft drinks are chugged rapidly at a gulp. For this style of drinking Coca Cola has too much gas, something which the company's South American executives either don't know or are unwilling to change...
...High Commissioner. His main favorite was Ice Station Zebra, the story of a U.S.Soviet confrontation on the North Pole. He saw it at least 150 times. When his spirits were high, he sang aloud time and time again the lyrics of that jazz hit, Hey-Baba-Rebop. He drank only Poland mineral water bottled at the spring in Maine. It had to be in quarts?he refused to drink water from pint bottles. His Flying Dutchman-like wanderings from country to country cost him an estimated $ 150 million per year...
...agreed with Chris Sarro '79 that Carter represents a tremendous risk. The two drank beer as they watched the reports of election results...
Davis wrangled a one-hour private audience with the head of one of Paraguay's largest corporations through fellow missionaries who had hitched a ride with him. "He told his secretary, 'No calls and no visitors for an hour,' and we sat down in his office and drank Cokes," Davis relates. 'He turned out to be Jewish, and he invited us to his home for the Sabbath, provided we didn't talk about our religion...
...occasional stevedore on the Dieppe piers, a drifter, a petty thief, he drank heavily, and then would get into fights. He was even known as "Judoka," the judo expert, because of his brawling...