Word: glassfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old schoolboy in Tacoma, an 18-year-old student in Castle Rock, a 70-year-old man in Centralia and a 62-year-old steamfitter in Olympia. Three old men and a woman died of heart attacks. Dozens of others suffered broken bones, bruises or wounds from flying glass...
Behind the high mahogany bar in Lima's Hotel Bolivar, the bartender poured a slug of water-clear liquor into a silver shaker, added lime juice, sugar, beaten white of egg, and ice, shook hard, then poured the mixture into a small glass. When Angostura had been sprinkled on the top, another pisco sour was ready for -the pre-luncheon crowd filling up Lima's best-known meeting place...
...cantina as a last resort. There the barman reached for la botella especial-the special bottle tucked away under the bar. After the bartender had dealt him a single snort, the dying man arose from his litter and walked away. He had drunk pisco ^from a rough, clear glass bottle in which was coiled, eyes open, a green garter snake...
...could blow us all to tiny pieces..." He never finished. Stalin jumped to his feet, Roosevelt states, and sternly exclaimed that this was no joking matter." American scientists had done a great job in winning the war...now we must develop atomic energy for peace." Then he raised his glass. "Here's to Professor Conant...
...London hotel, watching the faces of those about him, Tom thinks: "When Chaucer wrote of pilgrimage . . . then every man knew where he was, and where he could go. But now all is confusion and no one has anywhere to go. They leave home only to sit under glass roofs, in black overcoats and black hats, with faces so private and cunning that you are afraid of them...