Word: sip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drinking with breakfast, 3) drinking alone, 4) getting angry when deprived of drink, 5) feeling a strong need for drink at certain hours, 6) drinking to ease tension, 7) steadily increasing daily liquor consumption. Dr. Ivy's remedy for those who want to drink without harmful aftereffects: sip 3 oz. of beer, taking an hour...
When they finish their studying before 11 p.m. students somehow travel the half mile to Mike's Club in Annandale. This is a place to sip alcohol and munch hamburgers in an atmosphere dominated by the juke-box and low lights. Here students will often encounter members of the faculty and administration as well as the nearby Red Hook High School basketball team. With genial waitresses and table-to-table spirit, Bardians find it easy to dispose of long weeknights and even longer weekends...
...Gabor for a dress. "Interviewing Zsa Zsa in an office would turn out just like an interview with, say, Charlie Wilson," explains Buchwald. Although he is known at nearly every good restaurant in Paris ("My chief vice is eating too much"), he rarely drinks more than a sip of wine, finds that Americans abroad are much more candid and willing to be interviewed than in the U.S. For his popularity, Buchwald pays a heavy price. Says he: "Every atrocity that's committed by an American-or to an American-in Europe, I seem to hear about firsthand-they blame...
...huge sugar plantations many of the harvesters failed to report for work. Each morning before sunup, some 2,000 (an estimated 10% of the labor force) gathered in Masonic lodges and Burial Society halls from the outskirts of New Orleans to the Atchafalaya River to sing hymns, pray, sip coffee and idle away the day. After generations of precarious existence on the big plantations, the cane workers were out on an organized strike. Their wages (minimums are set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of a 1?-a-lb. sugar subsidy program) average from $700 a year...
Into a flower-decked ballroom in Washington one night last week swarmed a crowd of 1,500 to dance and sip champagne punch. But it was no ordinary party; many of the guests eyed each other critically to see just how well they executed their "box steps" and such advanced maneuvers as the "triple twinkle" and the "conversation corkscrew." The guests were almost all students of Arthur Murray, most successful dancing teacher in the world. The occasion: opening night of Murray's 308th and most lavish dance studio...