Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduced to their salaries, some as low as $22.50 a week. Cold morality embraced Havana cops, part of them holdovers from Batista, the rest recruited from rebel ranks. The government warned that they would go to jail if they used their badges to cadge so much as a soft drink from a grocery clerk, let alone shake down a chippy...
...even though he is a miserable linguist. At dinner's end, the President stood up, announced that he was about to display his best Kansan Spanish. Kansaned he: "Brindo por el Presidente y la Señora de Frondizi y las buenas relaciones entre nuestros dos paises." (I drink to President and Senora Frondizi and the good relations between our two countries.) Last week the President also: ¶ Signed, as part of his anti-inflation campaign, an executive order 1) creating an inter-agency Committee on Government Activities Affecting Prices and Costs and 2) naming his economic adviser, Raymond...
...next several months Rayon promised much, did nothing. Young Paulo, after his discharge, got a steward's job at Paris' Orly Airport, and was content to live simply and anonymously. Rayon, on his trail, said he felt sorry for Paulo, bought him a drink, and told him the truth. The young heir said he was not surprised, and added, "I don't care about their filthy money." But he agreed to disappear for a time...
Carmian is the writing daughter of an American father and a German mother. She is alone in Paris and so sensitive, so vulnerable that the plight of a homeless cat can reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...
...Haunted Palace, by Frances Win-war. A fine biography of Edgar Allan Poe, evoking a life of drink, drugs, and near madness redeemed solely by the unsinkable spar of his sometime genius...