Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along the wide sidewalks of the L-shaped intersection of Olive and Boyle. With the arrival of spring, St. Louisans have been turning out by the thousands to sit in the sidewalk cafes and stroll through the square (a stroller can drift from place to place with the same drink in his hand all evening if he has a mind to). There is plenty to do, and the way is never blocked by cover charges. At the Opera House, where a frieze of 2,500 croquet balls ("I got them all for $8." says the proprietor) and mallets decorates...
...segregationists. Said he: "No Negro child will be forced to go to school with white children as long as I am Governor of Alabama." During his administration he opposed segregationist plans to convert public schools to private schools, refused to sign oppressive segregation bills, even had a drink in the Governor's mansion with New York's Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell ("They say I drank Scotch and soda with Adam Clayton Powell. That's a lie. Anybody who knows me knows I don't drink Scotch...
...play week to week, every week. You're in a tournament for four days, playing a pro-amateur the fifth, traveling the sixth. You can't work up that same competitive edge." Self-discipline and moderation are matters of necessity, not choice. "I can drink with the best of them and stay out all night," said Nicklaus, "but now I get nine hours of sleep a night-after Tuesday, I don't even drink a beer." By experience, he also knows not to take liberties with the golfers he plays against. "As an amateur," he said...
...captive newspapers counted 280 bus breakdowns on Havana's streets in one day alone recently. "What am I supposed to do when this thing finally goes-join the militia?" said the disgruntled driver of a 1953 Cadillac taxi. Cubans are leary of the Coca-Cola they drink-it has been known to contain cockroach eggs; in bars they pointedly order Coke "sin bacilli" (without germs). "My father would be very sad to see this," said the son of the late president of Coca-Cola in Cuba...
...simulate marine life on an ocean bottom. Some of the visitors even opened an account. For though it looked for all the world like a cocktail lounge, the room was the newest branch of Lebanon's Intra Bank. "Nobody's wandered in and asked for a drink yet," said jubilant Intra Bank Founder Yusuf Bedas, 50, adding, "Conservative banks belong to the past...