Word: sips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elect Jose Maria Moncada, "Liberal" leader whose election was overseen by U. S. Marines. All three boarded the Maryland to break bread and discuss common desires. At a shore reception, Mr. Hoover had been handed a glass of champagne which he politely touched to his lips but did not sip. He now toasted Nicaragua in water and observed: "This occasion . . . represents a growing and united Nicaraguan people; a consolidation of forces for domestic peace. ... I know it is the will of the American people that we should cooperate...
Clearing his throat, taking a sip of water, and folding up his prepared speech, Alanson Bigelow Houghton sat down without mentioning the issue raised by Lord Lee of Fareham. But Manhattan dailies, and many another throughout the U. S., carried editorials approving Lord Lee's suggestion for a two-Power two-man conference...
...While sipping a glass of fine tawny sherry, the Very Reverend Chaplain-in-ordinary said: "It would be nonsensical for anyone to suppose [sip] that I am now encouraging drunkenness [sip...
Temperance is founded [sip] upon people being sensibly self-controlled [sip...
Slayer's Boast. Prince Felix Youssoupov has written autobiographically that he offered Rasputin poisoned wine, after first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...