Word: drank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...journey that began, at least symbolically, on a gloomy Sunday in Christchurch, New Zealand. Cooped up in a hotel room so dreary that he drank the contents of the mini-bar, Paul Theroux was continents away from his London home, newly separated from his wife, afraid that he might have cancer (not so, it turned out) and depressed by the prospect of war in the Persian Gulf. "Get me out of here," he said to himself and headed for the wilderness -- because, he wrote, "as long as there is wilderness there is hope...
...defense attorney says, "Your Honor, that evening the defendant was the victim of a violent assault. She was terribly upset and drank too much. She is willing to enroll in a treatment program. She doesn't usually do this, it was a one-time occurrence. You can still see the bruise on her left...
...never understood why they came to us for their party. I also don't understand why the business board, with the president's approval, took their money. (They drank cocktails on the same furniture we sat on while writing the staff editorial which concluded, "Buzz off, you pathetic elitists...
...were practically a family that night. They drank and danced and furiously climbed social rungs while I proofread stories and wrote headlines. We both ended up leaving the building around...
...little medical detective work revealed that none of the patients were taking vitamin supplements, the usual source of such overdoses. But all eight routinely drank milk from a single dairy. And when doctors tested samples of the milk, they were shocked to find that it had up to 500 times the vitamin D level marked on the label and recommended by the FDA. Worse yet, a wider study covering 13 brands of milk in five Eastern states turned up levels well below or appreciably above the suggested dosage. Infant formulas tended to be the highest, while some skim milk...