Word: drank
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...Confucius were drinking tea today, his brand of choice would surely be Salada. As he drank in the flavor the orange pekoe and contemplated the meaning of life, he would have appreciated the pearl of wisdom on the back of those unassuming red octagons...
...that much different from anybody else in the country; we're not Amish or anything," she says. "I think a lot of families think we'd be offended if they drank, or swore. But the we're just like anybody else...
...Games would naturally be the weather. One balmy day of 55 degreesF warmth gave way to huge chunks of snow, falling relentlessly for almost 24 hours and leaving a foot of the white stuff on Val d'Isere. The next day, however, dawned guiltless again. The Chinese delegation drank champagne and sang such favorites as Salute the World to ring in the Year of the Monkey. Visitors looked forward to hearing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, which would accompany every Unified Team gold. And the World Sugar Research Conference was taking place in the same mountains -- a non-Olympic event...
...second answer is that there is no proper name for "the all-burning, otherwise called holocaust," there are only cinderwords. And those words, if they could be found, make it impossible to appropriate synecdochically the Holocaust so as to deny it to a poet who drank the black milk of his own family...
Until six years ago, Turner was doing his best to imitate his father. He drank, but not well ("Two drinks and Ted was gone," says his friend Roddey), and earned early notoriety for showing up at the America's Cup press conference knee-walking drunk. He was such a determined womanizer that he made clear to Janie before their marriage in 1964 that he had no intention of becoming monogamous, according to several intimates. "I didn't like being alone when I was on the road" is how Turner today explains his numerous entanglements. Robert Wussler, his former senior executive...