Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really been spending the party's money "merrymaking with geisha girls," in the disguise of "Mr. P., a company owner." Shida had bought himself expensive clothes, donned black-rimmed glasses, grown a big mustache. Sometimes for three nights running he would drink four to six quarts of sake at a Tokyo geisha house called the Big Bamboo. He lavished so much money on his favorite geisha and attendant guests that the owner was able to add a brand-new two-story annex. Wrote Shinso's reporter: "I looked around at the rich artistic material used in building...
Whereas, at Harvard, ticket sales will be their lowest for any game in the season, and whereas the game itself is one that must be won, not so much for the sake of winning, but almost to hold "face," at Tufts, it is all Arlanson can do to remember he has a game with Bowdoin Saturday...
...east pasture. Spotting two big white trailers south of the tent, he asked: "What are those buses?" Whispered Appointments Secretary Bernard Shanley: "Those are comfort stations, not buses, Mr. President." Ike whipped his glasses out of his breast pocket for a look, gasped: "Oh, for goodness' sake." At 4:30 p.m. he took his seat on the platform and the program began. First major speech was a warm-up by Len Hall, then the speech that Ike had been waiting for. Author: Dick Nixon. He did not believe in answering personal attacks on the President, said Nixon, but when...
Unfortunately for her, Harris' arrangements with the Japanese called for the geisha to be spirited away whenever the "black ships" of the Americans were in port-and as these absences lengthened, Okichi consoled herself with sake. Consolation became alcoholic degradation, and Harris would have nothing more to do with her. No samurai, but still a carpenter. Tsuru-Matsu came back and married her; but love and liquor would not mix. When she was told that Townsend Harris had been buried "among the silent hills of Brooklyn." Okichi lingered on a few years, then suffered a paralytic stroke; dragging herself...
...tried to organize a no-quorum strike to prevent Congress from declaring him President-elect. Both attempts failed. Out going President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, most of the armed-forces brass and an apparent majority of run-of-the-plaza Ecuadorians wanted to see Ponce take office for the sake of constitutional order...