Word: drank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More worrisome in the long run, reports by the West Virginia state health department show that the incidence of respiratory cancer is higher in Chemical Valley than in the nation as a whole. Says Wayne Ferguson, a West Virginia State official: "My father, who never smoked or drank in his entire life, had cancer of the larynx. He was a professor at the college. His classroom window looked out at the plant." Ferguson would "love to see the plant close," but adds, "I'm probably in the minority around here...
...after his father died--is an interesting fellow, because it was in London that the character of Boswell as writer and socialite fully evolves. Brady does a good job of presenting a man who endured both hyperactive and melancholy tendencies. Boswell had an abundance of faults. For instance he drank too much; for this Johnson called him a man "without skill in inebriation." He was also intensely proud. Enamored of his strong stomach, he once stuffed himself aboard ship only to become violently ill with alacrity...
...hand to show how he had chopped off half his ringer to prove his repentance after having been disrespectful to his leader. He had put the severed finger in a small jar and sent it to the gang boss. One expert on the Chinese gangs told how members drank wine laced with both human and chicken blood while being initiated into their crime societies. He claimed that they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with heroin and carried across international borders by young women posing as the mothers of sleeping babies...
...When I was at Harvard, the girls drank straight...
...Glassboro in 1967. He locked eyes with Kosygin and vowed he would not look away. Minutes passed with neither man bunking. Johnson got a terrible urge for coffee. He walked his fingers across the table until they collided with his cup. He picked it up. Eyes locked. He drank. Eyes locked. He put the cup down. Kosygin looked away. Aha, thought Johnson. He had won. But later that night he confessed to friends, "I don't understand it. I could make any decision I wanted, but he had to call Moscow every time he wanted...