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Word: draughting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During this festive winter season," TV Announcer Henri Bergeron told Montrealers, with a pause-that-refreshes smile, "Drink good Coca-Cola. Why don't you share one with me now?" Bergeron, the town's top announcer, toasted his vast audience, took a long, deep draught from the glass, choked. He gasped. He coughed. Finally he managed to rasp: "If you want it in quantity, here's the large economy bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Coke Choke | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...searing drought for as long as eight years, the kiss of moisture on the crumbling land stirred a pulse-pounding flicker of hope; now, perhaps, seasonal rains would soak the ravaged soil, renew the empty springs. Last week the hoped-for moisture came. But it was a bitter draught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Bitter Draught | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Barley & Rice. Anyone can (and millions did, during Prohibition) brew a batch of beer. But its uniform mass production is a highly technical manufacturing process. At Anheuser-Busch, the brewmasters claim that Budweiser and its higher-priced companion beer Michelob (sold only on draught) have only the finest ingredients, e.g., imported hops, rice instead of oily corn grits, and two-row "Hannchen" barley, whose two rows of kernels in the head are bigger, more even, and contain more starch and less moisture than the more prevalent six-row barley kernels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Baron of Beer | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...before representatives of 600,000 mountain tribesmen. Huge brass gongs sounded out a tribal chant. Tribesmen, some wearing only loincloths, others rigged out in bright robes and peacock feathers placed ceremonial jars of wine from each mountain village before him. Through long, curved bamboo stems, Diem took a ceremonial draught from each jar. Then village elders slipped three large gold bracelets on Diem's arm, spread the head and entrails of two sacrificed water buffaloes before him, and pledged their allegiance to his government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Entrails & Entreaties | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...Cambridge City council has ordered all the city's draught beer taps cleaned out after reports that some of the taps were spreading dysentery, Councilman Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dysentery Reports Cause Council To Order Cleaning of Beer taps | 3/2/1955 | See Source »

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