Word: drank
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...observant Jew who opposed the marriage for religious reasons, and I realize how perfect both portraits are. Reid's story is Twainian, a western desert tall tale, and his background is as brutal and hardscrabble as Jackson's. "I guess it's no secret that both my parents drank heavily," he finally says. "I didn't learn my family values in Searchlight," he adds, referring to the tiny Nevada mining town where his father committed suicide and his mother washed laundry for the local brothels...
...year, we agree with UHS director David S. Rosenthal ’59 in attributing this increase to the medical tent on the tailgate grounds. By making it much easier than two years ago for students to seek medical attention, UHS did its part to ensure that students who drank unsafely were cared for efficiently. Indeed, unlike two years ago there were no urgent, life-threatening cases of alcohol consumption. While we are disappointed that, once again, a small percentage of Harvard and Yale students chose to drink irresponsibly, UHS’ handling of these unfortunate cases was exemplary. Couple...
...Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark. (Gerald Ford, 91, did not feel up to the trip), they got drenched in the rain like everyone else. But afterward they and their wives got to dry out in the Clintons' private apartment at the top of the building. They drank hot tea and talked about how to resuscitate their clothes, before going downstairs for a tour from a very proud Clinton...
...plastered the Parmalat name on events from World Cup skiing to Formula One racing. A pious Catholic, Tanzi was a generous benefactor who sponsored the restoration of Parma's 11th century basilica and funded its professional soccer team. And he seemed modest about his achievements. He didn't smoke, drank little and drove his own Lexus. Behind his company's facade of success, however, a hole kept growing. Parmalat's finances were in poor shape by the late 1980s as a result of a disastrous foray into...
...often easy to miss on a casual spin: “Have already touched it / It builds the bone / Although I’ll never need it / It fills in the hole I know” is more in-joke than description, and though “I drank from the wine that came from inside / the heart of his meat and the splurge of his sweet” is a little more explicit, it’s still couched in enough euphemism to have gotten past the Breen Office or the FCC. However, there are exceptions for those...