Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Half-Spartan, half-Puritan, the Chief frowns on nearly all the fighting man's favorite foibles, from cussing and ribaldry to boozing and whoring. Johnson, who takes an occasional drink, says with distaste: "I want no pickled brains leading my troops." One of his generals, who got publicly involved with a subordinate's wife, was summoned to Washington and swiftly resigned. In Johnson's jealous view, "The man or wife who will cheat on his partner will cheat on me." A onetime Star Scout, he keeps the Boy Scout Handbook and the Bible in his office. Fortunately...
...when it is completed next year. McNamara last week ordered 10,000 additional logistical and engineering and support troops to Viet Nam to help relieve the jam. Meanwhile, as a Saigon logistics officer puts it, "trying to handle this buildup is like a juggler on a tightrope trying to drink from a firehose...
...gestures underline the characters' faults; for instance, "the dove" Colomba, a hypocritically pious and hypocritically faithful wife affectionately twirls her husband's hair into horns while avowing her undying love. Even the blocking is significant. In an opening scene, Mosca lies at his master's feet while they both drink a toast to Volpone; in the final scene, "the fox" grovels before Mosca...
...Suburban Sartre and soap-opera sensibilities are the springs from which three moderns drink in Murray Schisgal's hilarious satire of the chatter of Freudian analysis and the jargon of the theater of the absurd...
Bulgarians are already hearty soft drinkers, satisfying their thirst mainly with boza, a rye-based soft drink similar to Russian kvas, or with a Coke imitation known as Bulgar Cola. The government is not anxious to change habits. Like Yugoslavia, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, the Bulgarians have imported Coca-Cola from West Germany to please Western tourists. With a record 1,000,000 visitors expected next summer, Bulgaria is merely taking the sensible step of providing a local Coke supply and cutting import costs...