Word: grog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maatha, a junior at a heart college in Sacred Newton. donned her bag and headed off to the corner. Linda stood near the punch bowl sipping grog through the make-shift hole in her bag, talking casually with the male bags that showed up for the Leverett House bag mixer last night...
...tropics, inimical to man, where decisive and meaningful deterioration occurs or is resisted. Greene rather blames Ronald Knox, famous convert and translator of the Bible, for having spent a cloistered life rather than dying like his obscure Anglican grandfather in "the dirty upper room of a Goanese grog shop." Fidel Castro, as jungle hero, he finds sympathetic: "This man, so Pauline in his labours and in his escapes from suffering and death...
Decked out in a navy-blue double-breasted coat complete with brass buttons, the lass made a brave show of downing the traditional ration of grog. "It tastes quite nice, but I don't think I could manage the whole tot," said Princess Anne, 18, after a few sips. She did better at the British Navy dice game of "great uckers," rolling a six and helping her team to victory. Actually, the Princess' only fluff on her official review of the frigate H.M.S. Eastbourne involved the time-honored British chip. "You'll have to come to Buckingham...
Midway through this longest night, O'Rourke decides to conquer nothingness by destroying himself. Deserting his post, he reels off in a grog-soaked bender and chops down a flagpole with an ax. Based on a drama by British Playwright John McGrath, The Bofors-Gun whirls to an ironic, literal climax that leaves the viewer more with the sense of having read a script than experienced a film. But there is nothing flat or literary about Williamson's biting representation of a human being tormented by both God and man, who in the end chooses neither...
Warm and Crackling. Both men painted in the "Mad '40s," an era that was ushered in with the cry of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" and went out with the California gold rush. Americans gambled their fortunes on cockfights, sang themselves hoarse at prayer meetings, got roaring drunk on grog. They were titillated by Tyler's dalliance with a society beauty, captivated by Morse's telegraph, endlessly amused by politics. Mount and Woodville's art chronicled the times with a warm blend of sentimentality and good humor...