Word: drank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...else she wanted to be pretty. But in adolescence her complexion raged and she got fat. A lifelong obsession with personal ugli ness began. Unequal to the conventional standards of Southern femininity, Joplin decided to be its antithesis: she became one of the guys-palling around with boys who drank beer, listened to jazz, and tolerated her because she was willing to play court jester...
They found the highway restaurants "faultlessly clean" and staffed by "smiling waitresses," and the motels inspired them to say, "We can and must learn a lot from the example of the American 'overnight industry.''" They found that Cokes "really did make things go better," so they drank 300 of them. As for catsup, they claimed that it turns "every meal tastier." They added: "What happened to catsup in the Soviet Union...
...government investigation of 20 major companies not long ago uncovered information long familiar to other expense-account societies: anywhere from one-fifth to four-fifths of all entertainment expenditures are bogus. One hard-drinking salesman spent $3,000 a month at 38 different bars; investigators found that he usually drank alone. An executive put his daughter's wedding-bridal kimono, banquet, honeymoon and all-on his expense account. In fact, it is common practice in Japan to phone a friend at another company and ask permission to use his name for some fictitious entertainment. "I have done it whenever...
...Henry Luce's magazines, as "Jack the Dripper," the angry-looking young man who put canvas on the floor, slopped a little Duco paint around, added some sand and miscellaneous junk, and called the mess a painting. He seemed as full of chaos as his paintings. He smoked Camels, drank hard, then finally lost control of the whole thing and died...
...part of the evening, stage center was occupied by a 33-ft. glass prism that drank in the light, threw it back out kaleidoscopically, and seemed to be imitating the mystery-of-the-universe monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A troupe of ballet dancers suddenly materialized to writhe to Pierre Henry's electronic sound track, which was often so loud that the management had to provide cotton balls for the ears of the audience...