Word: sip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commanded the brightest spotlight and biggest headlines. Before an audience including 66 foreign delegations, Brezhnev rose in the Kremlin's modernistic Palace of Congresses to deliver a three-hour, 82-page speech. (Kosygin followed the next day with a talk that lasted all of ten minutes.) Pausing only to sip cherry-flavored water, Brezhnev spoke self-confidently on a wide range of subjects, taking a tough but carefully qualified attitude. Nations fighting against imperialism, he said, will always have in Russia "a reliable and true friend." Enlightened circles in "bourgeois countries," on the other hand, can count on "a partner...
...screwed by a few blacks, but I figured it was the course of business. Now I've become very hardened." At the G & G Delicatessen in Dorchester, once the social center for 50,000 Jewish Bostonians and now little more than a gathering place for old men who sip coffee, Julius Kolodny says bitterly: "Black and white can never mix. They burned my house to the ground, those kids. Then this woman comes and says why don't I make it a playground. I said drop dead I'll make it a playground...
...autobiography is excruciating when he recalls going to dances in the 1930s, learning to sip punch and stand around as if he did not want to dance. The devastating need of blacks to restore pride in their color and race still flames forth in Malcolm X's comment on the tragic folly of doting black parents who favored whichever child in the family was the palest. When, at age 14, Malcolm was told-like many other gifted blacks-that he should think of carpentry instead of law, he turned his back on the whole white world...
...took a sip from her cup of coffee. I asked her if she wanted something to cat. "You're looking awfully thin," I said...
...decision last Wednesday by the Committee on Houses allowing girls to provide sunshine and sip their OJ in Harvard's dining halls shows that Harvard has truly gone the way of all flesh...