Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died, the poor peasants refused to take him seriously. Short, bald, muscular and hairy-chested, he looked like a good-natured, grinning ape. Unlike his dapper predecessor, he wore the wooden shoes and coarse clothing of his patients. He cursed, he got into fist fights, and he loved his gin. When he showed up to deliver a baby on his first case, he even had a little trouble being admitted to the house. How could this genial ruffian be so unprofessional and so skillful...
...through his fan mail. "Hell, no. Anything for a lousy dollar." He slouched over for a rubdown from the trainer. Off in a corner, Willie Mays and his road-trip roommate, Monte Irvin, laughed apathetically over a joke. Across the room, a group of players carried on a silent gin-rummy game. Conversation, what there was of it, was dominated by an unimaginative profanity. Soon someone cussed out the clubhouse boy and sent him for sandwiches. Outside, a bunch of hopeful boys clustered about the dressing-room window and pleaded for autographs. No one offered an autograph, but one Giant...
This year Americans will pursue 33 million rounds of golf. For the privilege, they will spend something like a third of a billion dollars on everything from wood en tees to gin & tonics on the 18th Hole...
...Genoa, Author Ernest Hemingway paused over his coffee and wine when asked about his brush with crocodiles and treetops during his two recent African plane crashes, then recalled his pain with a curdled face for the benefit of a photographer. Reported title of Papa's forthcoming African memoirs: Gin Is Not for Little Children...
...only symbols," he hears. "Wealth is the natural resources of a country. . ." Running a finger under his shirt collar, his voice trembling, Mr. Hobbs explodes: "It was dollars that bought that beef tonight that you all gobbled up so cheerfully. It was dollars that bought that bottle of gin that disappeared before dinner. Nobody ever handed me any natural resources, and I never paid a grocery bill with the potential of a labor force. I wouldn't recognize one if it walked into the room...