Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Storm & Drink. The troops swiftly dug in along the scorched ridge of sand that separates Iraq from Kuwait. But the Iraqis made not a move. Faced by a no-show foe, the troopers concentrated on survival in the searing heat (120° in the shade) and blinding sandstorms. Cracked one bare-chested trooper: "To qualify as a royal marine, all you have to do is be able to drink 19 Cokes daily." British and Kuwaiti officers shuttled companionably between neon-bright Kuwait City and the front in Sheik-supplied Cadillacs and Chryslers. Declared Brigadier General Derek Horsford, Britain...
...very good indeed. An Easy One tells of a boy and his mother traveling in a train. The boy is bright, and prattles loudly the names of the states and their capitals; the mother is slightly cheap and not interested. A businessman moves in and buys the mother a drink. The boy fights back by sulking. The man counters by asking him another state capital. The boy says he does not know, and is silent when his mother, quite gay now, urges him to recite. He glares at her, and petulantly she asks the porter...
...flagship, Anderson was a gracious host to many world political figures. He was always careful to court them with such niceties as dimming the lights when their national anthem was played. Only a social drinker himself, he kept them more or less happy by serving a fizzy grape drink that looked and popped corks like champagne, yet did not violate the Navy ban on shipboard alcohol...
...NATION GASPS AT WIDE CONCESSIONS, headlined the Rand Daily Mail, and the head of the temperance movement cried, "I can see only evil arising from this measure . . . Africans don't drink to enjoy it . . . they drink to get drunk." Angriest of all were the shebeen queens, whose brimming vats of fermenting rotgut would become unsalable when their thirsty black customers finally could walk around the corner and buy the real stuff...
...Cheaters (Silver-Zebra; Continental) and Frantic (Times Film Co.). French moviemakers have lately had the notion that any film in which the young wear duffel coats, drink too much and charge about on motor scooters belongs to the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave, and should therefore be as fashionable as sinning after lunch. Two recent arrivals resound to the phoot-phoot of scooters, but they nonetheless belong to the most ancienne of vagues-bad films. Cheaters is a solemn exercise in which Jacques Charrier, a pretty young man married to Brigitte Bardot, and some friends behave with what they...