Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drink! for you know not whence you came...
...Ozark, Ark., when a lawyer cross-examined a witness with "I hear you drink sometimes," the witness said: "You heard wrong. I drink all the time...
Star Witness Rawson Mbogwa Macharia, a frail little Kikuyu shopkeeper, testified six years ago that Kenyatta himself had given him the Mau Mau oath, that he had been stripped naked and made to walk seven times through an arch of banana leaves and to drink human blood. Last spring, hoping for money, Macharia made the rounds of Nairobi newspapers showing a letter to him from Kenya's attorney general written before the trial. In return for his testimony, the letter said, the government would reward Macharia with a round-trip air ride to England, a two-year college course...
...graduates are pleased with both. Only 15 report that they love their wives less than when they were married. Perhaps coincidentally, there have been 15 cases of ulcers. Eighteen of the men have been under psychoanalysis. ¶ At least on their own estimate, they are a restrained lot; 140 drink more than they did in college (Scotch is preferred to bourbon or gin), but 137 drink less, and 27 sit stoutly on the wagon. Card playing is preferred to sex as a favorite indoor sport (181 to 47), with squash (29) and table tennis (12) not too far behind. Three...
...slave girl is $270; gambled for low stakes with Cadillac-driving smugglers in Andorra, the tiny domain perched in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. An ex-reporter for U.P. and a magazine writer, Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin as Tchico, the dog ghost of Sark. In rating the 13 microcosmic spots he visited, Sack gives highest honors to San Marino, the mountaintop republic in Italy, and second place to polo-playing Punial, a small state near...