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...sip your cocktails and act like a Gatsby all you want," Paul says, "but we're just going to enjoy ourselves, me and my friends...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Getting By With A Little Help From Your Friends | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

...Airlines flight attendant for the past four years, I feel that I have been given and continue to be given excellent emergency training. Any time that I have "frantically" collected glasses before landing it has been because I had to argue with passengers who insisted on having the last sip and keeping the glass until the last possible moment. Flight attendants need the cooperation of passengers, who, for the most part, have come to take safety for granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1977 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...started grabbing for any kind of fluid I could get. Unfortunately, I ended up with orange juice. One sip and wham! Within a few seconds I had severe stomach cramps, a tremendous stitch from out of nowhere. I haven't had a cramp like that in years...

Author: By Stephen W. Parker, | Title: The 27th Mile | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...Middle Ages, but their spheres of movement, especially in their social life, are limited. Weddings are segregated by sex, although the merriment is not denied the women. They celebrate with dancing, clapping, and shrieking to live music inside, while the men sit quietly on the porch and sip...

Author: By Ricky Goldstein, | Title: Shedding The Safsari | 3/29/1977 | See Source »

...1950s, a clerk in a department store refused to let me sip from a water fountain, despite my mother's plea that "he's just a little boy." Later, when my family got its first television set, I was entranced by the ads for Glen Echo amusement park. My mother couldn't really explain why she couldn't take me there. The reason, of course, was that Glen Echo did not admit blacks. Nor did many restaurants, movie theaters and other public facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Segregation Remembered | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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