Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who live in temperate countries, vampire bats are colorful items for horror stories. In Latin America they are a too real horror. They carry rabies and transmit it to humans and animals, whose blood they drink. Rabies does not necessarily kill the vampires, and anti-bat measures by humans do not kill enough of them. Last week a Brazilian naturalist, Dr. Augusto Ruschi, 41, was working out a new solution of the vampire problem: biological warfare with a disease that kills bats only...
...vampire menace of Latin America has been building up for several decades. Even before they carried rabies, the blood-drinking bats were not pleasant neighbors. When attacking sleeping humans, they generally go for the toes, sometimes creeping under the bedclothes like evil, winged mice. Sleeping animals are their staple diet. They generally bite on the wing, retreating and hovering in the air a few feet away to see if their victim has awakened. Dogs often wake up when bitten, but other animals generally do not. Several bats may flutter down to drink one trickle of blood...
...think that this element has altogether vanished from sophisticated contemporary Christianity were obviously not listening to the responsive reading they recited during a recent service in Memorial Church: "...Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."--Selection Eight-Four of the Hymnbook...
...Then we all went down to the Harvard ski cabin and had a big party which lasted all night long. We had half a keg of beer to drink up. We awarded the trophies then, too. We have three trophies--the outhouse trophy, the garbage trophy, and the real good trophy. The first two are roadsigns--one stays in our garbage dump and one over our outhouse. The third is a nice silver cup....But the Outing Club forgot to bring...
...Cohen. To the movie folk, gum-chomping Mick typified a real-life heavy out of their own films; for the Mick to invite a star to his table in a swank joint seemed as thrilling for the guest as it would be if a rubberneck tourist were asked to drink with Lana Turner. The Mick and his crowd just loved...