Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack a sense of real human contact are often a last attempt to communicate. He put snakes in beds, made power dives with passengers given to airsickness. But he never seemed either happy or go-lucky. He cultivated his body as a trust; he not only refused to drink or smoke but also gave up coffee for fear it would spoil his reflexes. He once made up a list of 61 "character factors" in his diary, checked off his score at the end of each...
...Drink Canada dry. Visit Expo 67." "Do the Chinese look in the White Pages?" "Goodnight, David . . . Goodnight, Goliath...
...Last week the Tennessee legislature passed the state's first civil rights bill since Reconstruction-a low-pressure measure setting up a commission to promote racial harmony-and opened the way for such dry cities as Nashville and Memphis to vote on the sale of liquor by the drink. This week it is expected to repeal the old "monkey law" that prohibits the teaching of evolution. Alabama has redistributed gas-tax funds and other revenues, increasing the slice for urban Jefferson County (Birmingham) from $1,700,000 this year to an estimated $6,400,000 next year...
...boondoggling press junket to the Near East. At each unlikely way station toward a destination never reached, they consume more and more tree booze, "compliments of Magic Carpet." By the time of the denouement in Ljubljana, ?5,000 worth of liquid hospitality has been consumed. While they drink, Frayn mocks but does not eviscerate; the chroniclers of a society, he seems to be saying, mirror the society itself...
...time to drink, to beat the earth in rhythm toss flowers on the couches of the gods Friends...