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...program, each patient is taken to "Duffy's Tavern," a small room decorated with enough bottles of whisky to lubricate a regiment. The patient is given a nausea-inducing shot and then handed a glass of his favorite brand. He sniffs the aroma, takes a sip and swirls it around in his mouth. Then, sickened, he spits it out into a handy container...
...half-empty cup of coffee in front of him. "You know, I think things will be much better in the spring," he is telling the waitress. "I'm almost sure that I'll be able to sell more of this new line of table clothes." He takes a sip of coffee...
...like the rockpile just outside the village, on the side of the road. Every time a campesino passes by there on the way to his field, he throws another stone on the pile, so that the devil will stay away." The padre took a long sip of beer from the glass on the table and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "Or their custom of spilling out some of their drink before they have any of it to give thanks to Pachamamma, their Mother Earth. It's left over from their pagan beliefs...
...Christmas, with all of its hope, good will and cheer"), and the soaring strains of Joy to the World and Mary Had a Baby rang out from the Army chorus. The White House staff, from lawyers to clerks, came together in small warm groups to nibble Christmas cookies and sip some eggnog. Nixon showed up briefly...
Nixon and his Bicentennial Commission will ignore these issues. They will ignore what the American Revolution was really about and what it took to win it. They, like Josiah Quincy a hundred years ago will sit back and sip a cup of tea and say, "Let's keep revolutions in the history books where they belong...