Word: drank
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...were running the Bosnian war--Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At times the ruthless Balkan bosses--especially Milosevic--probably saw something of themselves reflected in Holbrooke. He stroked their egos, he laughed at their jokes, he drank their plum brandy--Milosevic praised his skill as a "bulls------ artist." But Holbrooke was also tough. Once, when Izetbegovic was hesitating over a cease-fire agreement, he barked, "Don't play craps with your destiny. You'd better be ready to live with the consequences if you make the wrong gamble...
...Some people [in the study] drank as much as three or four [drinks per day] but that was not the norm," said Gaziano...
...popular. He didn't become the player he could have because he did exactly what he wanted. He did not want to stop drinking or spend time rehabilitating his chronic knee injuries or conditioning during the off-season. (He says he rarely put time in for such things). He drank, played golf and played baseball. (And, I might add, he did not womanize...
Still, Castro is so eager for Americans to loosen the embargo that he personally managed the details of our encounter with him--including a stand-up buffet after his press conference so he could stroll around and work his charisma on each of his guests. At the reception he drank martinis, ate oysters, praised the Pope's sincerity and talked motorcycles. But old habits die hard: the next day, one of the dissidents scheduled to have lunch with us received an anonymous death threat under her door. She joined us anyway...
...about the carnage wrought by hatred in his native land. In "Casualty," he portrays the death of a Catholic friend who went to a Protestant pub in spite of warnings that a wing of the Irish Republican Army planned to bomb it: "He had gone miles away/ For he drank like a fish." After the explosion: "How culpable was he/ That last night when he broke/ Our tribe's complicity?" The question is both wrenching and outside the parameters of normal political debate. Death and suffering cannot be countered by polemics; the best thing to be said--a fair definition...