Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Florida's usually placid Seminole Indians get a crazy feeling, they drink an ancient tranquilizing tea brewed by the medicine man. This news finally reached the drug world recently through an ex-G.I. with a yen for tranquilizers. He rushed into the Upjohn Co.'s headquarters in Kalamazoo to extol the Seminole tea virtues, especially its lack of side effects. The man who brewed it for him, he reported, was none other than Josie Billie, or Kachanagofte (Big Tiger), onetime chief Seminole medicine man for 25 years and the only person alive who knows the formula...
...drive from Johns Hopkins to Washington. Often he stays overnight, and the Upstairs Red Room (so called to distinguish it from the main-floor parlor known as the Red Room) is generally kept ready for him. In the privacy of the presidential bedroom, the brothers can unbend over a drink or two-Scotch and soda for Ike, a bone-dry martini for Milton-furl sleeves, lounge coatless in the easy chairs and talk...
Navymen know that the Soviet boats are constantly probing U.S. submarine defenses, testing the detection and tracking proficiency of U.S. goblin hunters. "The Russians," says Vice Chief of Naval Operations James Russell, "are not building submarines in order to drink toasts at launching ceremonies." Russia's Nikita Khrushchev himself stated the submarine threat as baldly as possible: "Our submarines can block American ports and shoot into the American interior, while our rockets can reach any target. America's vital centers are just as vulnerable as NATO bases...
...Worked Where?" His mother was no help. Once when he was in the hospital and forbidden to drink, he lowered a rope of bandages down to her, and she tied on two bottles of vodka for him. In the name of victory, his bosses put up with everything until last spring he raped a girl named Tamara. Tamara refused to be bribed into silence, and the case wound up in court. There, keeping his face turned away from the public, a ruined Edouard sobbed out his answers: "You worked where?" "In the committee of the Likhachev Auto Plant." "In what...
...liner notes on the new record describe the musician: "A short man growing slightly stocky, bald, Napoleonic. Smokes cigars. Can drink four framboises after dinner with no decline of intellectual focus. Never eats breakfast. Is generous with money. Could organize and run even the French government. Was a choir boy . . . Has nervous blink . . Lives near Paris' Place de la Bastille (in an old building; you expect to find J.J. Rousseau sitting in bed writing when you enter...