Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condemned because they precipitate violence. Isn't this like condemning the robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery? Isn't this like condemning Socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical delvings precipitated the misguided popular mind to make him drink the hemlock? Isn't this like condemning Jesus because his unique God-consciousness and never-ceasing devotion to God's will precipitated the evil act of the Crucifixion...
...previous U.S. President. Yet McCormack appears mentally alert and, despite his gaunt, 6-ft. 2-in., 168-lb. frame, physically fit. "I have never been sick in my life," he says. "I have never spent a day in a hospital." A tireless worker, he lives austerely, does not drink, rarely attends social functions...
...swinger like his dad, young Frank doesn't drink or gamble. So the merchandised vices of Hurrah's held little interest for him, and he had been spending his free time in his room in one of the motels that Harrah's maintains for performers and guests, watching TV, drinking Cokes, and listening to tapes of his own performances and his father's, whose way with a lyric has long been to him the canon of perfection...
...Princeton's college-boy lingo, Bill Bradley, 20, is known as a "straight arrow"-meaning, says a classmate, that "he is just what his parents think he is." He does not drink or smoke or chew. He studies seven hours a day for a B average, goes to Presbyterian church on Sunday and polishes off by teaching Sunday school. That would be enough to set him apart on most campuses, but there is more: he is the first All-America basketball player in Princeton's history, and quite possibly the best college player in the game...
Then she too expired, peering into her glass and lamely saying, "It certainly makes you want to cheer." In the touching silence, her husband exclaimed: "Let's drink to the roaring foothills and the hell with the hymn...