Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faubus' voice, magnified by a sound truck, filled the tiny square, ripped through the still, oppressive heat and bellowed out over the whole town. Pausing only to drink from a red paper cup or wipe his sweating face with a handkerchief, Faubus appealed to his listeners as "my kind of folk." "I've been an ordinary working person all my life," he said. "I'm a hillbilly. I never was out of the shadow of the green Ozark Mountains until I was well past a man." He recounted the gifts of progress that he had brought...
...These people are now accepted by Society even though they never belong to it, and this is a wonderful improvement. You are not nearly so likely to get stuck at dinner between two scions of famous families who tell their golf scores or that they've given up drink. Now you have a good chance of being seated next to an author or artist or lecturer who is there because he has something to offer Society...
...Hamlet's mother drink poison. See Hamlet stab King Claudius...
...purchasing power. Even Australia, Britain's best Commonwealth customer, has a population only slightly larger than Paris and Rome combined. Despite high tariffs on British imports, Europeans already have a healthy appetite for marmalade and Jaguars, Wedgwood china and Scotch whisky (which chic Frenchmen fancy in le long drink}. British sweaters and men's shoes, chocolates and cloth-but not what Parisians call "weedytweedy"-also rate high with Continentals. The British, in turn, have shown a growing desire for Continental products and even customs. British import duties make the Volkswagen $370 more expensive than the slickly styled...
Deceptive Date. There were occasional drunks, too; Bill Faulkner had more violence in him than he could let out by writing, and he was too polite ever to raise his voice. His drinking bouts lasted for weeks, and relatives used to sit in relays with him as they ran their course. He launched into one just before he was slated to go to Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize, and his family, worried he might not come out of it in time, set the calendar ahead. Then someone said something about the local high school football game. Faulkner...