Word: guzzler
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...calls the "espresso belt." It now runs through Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and parts of Austria and Germany. The U.S., Valente admits, has so far shown relatively little taste for coffee Italian style. But he is sure the habit is exportable on a larger scale. For as any espresso guzzler would attest, it represents one of the contributions Italy has made to the civilized amenities of the world...
...Romneys live in a $150,000 modern Swiss-chalet house (with a waterfall in back) that he built last year in fashionable Bloomfield Hills. (When he invited the auto industry brass for a housewarming, one G.M. wife remarked dryly: "George, you've bought yourself quite a gas guzzler.") He begins his day at 5 a.m., uses the first daylight hours, except when snow is on the ground, to play solitary golf with luminous balls at a country club next to his home. He keeps no score, dashes up and lunges at the ball, then chases it across the fairway...
...tour as the villainous Captain Queeg with the road company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Actor Paul Douglas, currently pictured in magazine ads as a genial beer guzzler, hit the town of Greensboro, N.C. and made some ungenial, damyankee noises. Caught either off guard (according to a local reporter) or off record (according to Douglas), the actor waded Queegishly into a question about how he liked Dixie, snapped a curt "It stinks." After the aghast newsman commented that the reply would make interesting reading, Douglas plowed onward: "A land of sowbelly and segregation-it stinks." By the time...
Despite its well-known monicker of "Party House" and the equally celebrated conception of its member as a back-slapping beer guzzler, sprawling Dunster House offers a broader appeal than dining hall cheers and uproarious smokers...
Atop Lenin's tomb in Moscow, Gottwald had stood for 90 minutes in an icy wind and 12° cold. He had been in uncertain health for years, and he was a heavy guzzler who often showed up tipsy at official functions. When he returned to Prague, he looked well enough as he briskly reviewed an honor guard at the airport. But the next day he was ill. A clutch of doctors, including two Russians, called to his bedside in Hradcany Castle (medieval seat of the Bohemian kings), diagnosed his trouble as pneumonia and pleurisy...