Word: sip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inhabitants eat French food in restaurants, shop for French bread, sip crèmes and demi-pressions (beer) in sidewalk cafés, grow up on French textbooks and must be familiar with Racine and Corneille by the tenth grade in school. Most of all, the top men are firm partisans of Charles de Gaulle. "I consider the general my adopted father," says Brigadier Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic and a former officer in the French colonial army. "Politics does not enter into our relationship...
...profile of the average U.S. drinker is largely reassuring. He has his first taste at age twelve to 14-commonly by receiving a sip of the family stock. Before graduation from high school, he is drinking at least episodically-along with more than three-fourths of the student body. Like the hippie minority, most youthful drinkers stick to wine and beer, possibly because liquor is regarded as the old folks' hang-up but more probably because the lighter drinks are easier on the pocket and the throat...
...winter rains, awash in light brown mud. A few shops provide essential services-shoe repair, clothing-and the U.N.'s daily ration (1,600 calories in winter) can be supplemented at ramshackle fruit and vegetable stands. Menfolk gather, as they always have, in coffeehouses, to talk and sip thick, dark coffee...
...Habana Libre looks like any other hotel. Its architecture is an unimaginative rectangular slab; the decor of its lobby is unmistakably the pesudo-modernism of the mid-fifties. Some things will probably never change, like the daiquiris, so cold they make your head ache if you sip them too fast...
...that obscured his forehead, is now somewhat better tamed and brushed to the side. He goes to the theater in London occasionally, but has never been seen at a nightclub and, aside from sneaking a cherry brandy as a schoolboy, is known to drink nothing stiffer than an occasional sip of champagne. He does not smoke. He is good at gentlemen's sports-polo, shooting, sailing-but does not have any interest in such traditional British team sports as rugby and cricket...