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...press. After that, 20 cops in uniform and plain clothes joined the newsmen in an eight-hour vigil outside the building. Excited Swiss who lived across from the clinic fed the newsmen hot tea. The manager of the Lausanne-Palace Hotel arrived with a milk can full of hot grog...
...King was delighted. He called the Amethyst's escape a "daring exploit," personally ordered the frigate's crew to "splice the mainbrace"-break out an extra order of grog for all hands. In Shanghai, the Communist press ignored the Amethyst's escape completely. Shanghai British celebrated discreetly. "We're glad they're out of it," said one, "but there's no point in crowing over it. After all, we're still here...
...addition to Miss Backe, the cast will include Jan Farnard, Bryant Hili-day, Thayer, David, Jerry Kilty, Robert Flethcer, Jeanne, Tufts, Albert Marre, and Grog Martin...
...main brace-except for an old salt named Jonas Wanton. Jonas had passed out cold, but he remained a center of attention: one wassailer was being sick beside him, while Stephen Hopkins (who was later to sign the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island) blessed his bald head with grog...
...Steaks & Grog. Morgan* and his crew arrived in high spirits, having dipped into the ship's grog supply to celebrate. Unlike the haggard crews aboard other ships, the Dolphin's men were tanned, clean shaven and immaculate in shorts and blue jerseys. They boasted that they had slept eight hours a day most of the time, had never been lost for a minute. Some of them had felt a bit queasy at first, but later had dined heartily on 22 days' supply of steak, roasts, chicken, lamb curry, lobster salad and pie à la mode. They...