Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single-minded cunning of a parched mongoose, are not what she is looking for. Said Joanne: "I don't really like college boys. I know what they are going to say and how they think. They're so silly, and don't know how to drink." Some of the college boys seemed to share her indifference. Said a Yale man: "All you can do at a deb party is talk, and who wants to talk...
...HYRC party started at 8 p.m. Over 1000 students and college girls attended during the evening to drink beer, dance, and keep tab on results...
...week, Geoffrey pays $10 in government taxes and $16 to the building society. He allows himself $5 for lunches-which means, he says, "either I give myself a good feed and nothing to drink, or sandwiches and a pint of wallop [beer]." Mary spends $12 a week for food (50% more than prewar), $4 for local taxes, light and heat. Their 23? meat ration lasts for only two meals, so Mary supplements it with items like mushrooms and canned salmon. This is costly but the Jacksons consider it an investment in good health...
...enough to drive a farmer to drink. North of the Rio Grande, bumper cotton and sugar-beet crops were ready for harvest, and U.S. farmers were faced with the nightmare of losing it all for want of extra farm hands. Meanwhile, jammed into the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, just below the river, nearly 8,000 Mexican workers waited to be registered as seasonal braceros and to go on north to the harvest. But nothing was being done to send them north; they were stranded...
Near a soft-drink bar in the main building of the University of Ottawa hangs a crudely crayoned sign: "S'il vous plait-please-pas de bouteilles-no bottles-dans le-in the-gym." Students shout to each other in English, answer in French. Professors teach all courses in two languages. Everywhere on the campus of Canada's lone bilingual university le bilinguisme is casually accepted...