Word: drank
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...Dutch East India Co.'s settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. His words were written just five years after European vines were first planted at the southernmost tip of Africa. By the 18th century, South African Muscats were being served in Europe's royal houses; Napoleon drank a bottle a day during his exile on St. Helena. Jane Austen prescribed Cape Constantia wine for the brokenhearted Marianne in Sense and Sensibility. Though listed as products of the New World, Cape wines are being rediscovered today as modern extensions of a historic Old World legacy...
Open all night and a great follow-up to beer and Long Island iced tea we drank at an American bar, the hot crepe with applesauce made me feel like I was experiencing Paris as...an American college student on spring break...
...British pub in Moscow, the promoters once brought in a lemon-shaped kiddie pool for a "bobbing for Hooches" event, in which the contestants had to pick a bottle off the bottom with their teeth. One man, after sticking his face in the water, somehow undid the cap and drank the entire bottle under water. At another promotion, Tatyana, one of the "Hooch Girls," saw someone swallow a lemon whole in a lemon-eating contest, "in one second, I swear," she says...
...writers spend more time writing editorials than they do researching facts." It seems to me that she is the one who is spending too much time writing and not enough time researching. Surely you cannot tell me that Scott Krueger's fatal error was being underage. Simply put, he drank too much. And whether he was 15 or 50, he would have had to deal with the same consequences. MICHAEL S. ROIFF...
Drinking was easier. Asked what and where she drank, Baiul says everything and everywhere. Vodka and cranberry was her favorite. Well, she is told, it's certainly not uncommon for a teenager, any teenager, to go for a good time...