Word: sipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with enough gauges and gadgets to make it look like Faith 7). In the evening, he was off again to address R.O.T.C. students at nearby Arizona State University, gave them a talk about freedom and the necessity of manned aircraft in the space age, went home again to sip bourbon and water and fiddle with his ham rig. Soon he was talking up his pet Senate bills to two hams in the Pacific's Marshall Islands. When a house guest went off to bed at 2 a.m., Barry and his son Mike, 23, were fiddling with a new kind...
Small as the assemblage was, the candlelit room was smaller yet, and some of the guests wound up forced to sip their cocktails in the ladies' room. But nobody seemed to mind, for the conversation was lively, the filet mignon was good, and the guest of honor was unusually convivial. The occasion was a testimonial dinner in Manhattan last week for terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler...
...Elizabeth is capable of great, violent, tempestuous hates," he observes; but in brighter moods she calls him "Richard Bursnips" and combs his silken hair, saying it is "soft as a baby's bum." Her parents stop in from time to time to sip black velvets with their new fun-in-law. null or without company, Elizabeth tries to stay close by him 25 hours a day, filling poor Richard's almanac with some dull stretches of prose as well as short bursts of poetry. During most of the winter, he would slip out to see his family several times...
When word of the murder reached the King's residence on the banks of the Mekong, it failed to dampen the merrymaking. The band played on, the ministers and their ladies continued to sip champagne. Shrugged one guest: "No one had it more coming to him and from more quarters than did Quinim Pholsena.'' Hardworking, dedicated and devious. Quinim lacked the customary Laotian charm and grew up consumed by bitterness and envy. Unlike most other Laotian politicians, he did not belong to a rich or princely family. He made a lot of money as a merchant...
...auctioneer, Maurice Rheims, receives them in his home and talks to them of French period furniture. The Baron Alexis de Redé entertains the girls in his private apartments at the Hotel Lambert (the oldest occupied mansion in Paris), where, beneath Le Brun's painted ceiling, they sip champagne served by footmen. Duke Philippe de Luynes, president of the French Society for the Protection of Historical Dwellings, escorts them through his castle (Luynes...