Word: drank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stomach, but there was no escaping it. El amigo del padre has to join in too if he did not want to be rude. So I took the glass, spilled a little out in the customary Quechua gesture of thanks to Pachamamma, or Mother Earth, closed my eyes, and drank. "Que bueno!" How good! I said through my teeth as I handed the cup back to the peasant...
...common future. The factories became their factories, managed by committees of workers they elected. Many of the great rural estates were broken up and divided among the poorer peasants, who got back land stolen from their ancestors. And children in the industrial slums whose minds were stunted by malnutrition drank milk for the first time...
There are enough young Coorses to ensure a steady succession, but Bill Coors is not optimistic about the future for many U.S. brewers. Though Americans last year drank 20.3 gal. of beer per capita, up from 15.1 gal. in 1960, rising distribution costs and periodic price cutting by the big national brewers have forced some 660 breweries out of business since 1934, leaving a total of only 60. "Our long-term strategy is to survive," says Bill Coors. "By 1990 there will be only three major companies left, and we intend to be one of them...
...drank before the race clogged his valves...
...wealthy in the silk-dyeing industry in Paterson, but took a bath in the Depression; his father was an insurance broker. At Lafayette College, Simon was pledgemaster of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and he plumped up his slender funds with odd jobs and winnings at poker.He also ate enough and drank enough beer to put more than 200 Ibs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame. Then he doggedly swam 25 to 30 laps a day at a local Y.M.C.A. pool until he got his weight down to 165, where it has remained ever since...