Word: sips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full-dress reception in their honor at Washington's staid Congressional Club. There the President gave each one of the 500 guests a hearty handshake and a good word, beamed approvingly as the red-coated Marine orchestra played music from South Pacific, and took a disparaging sip of the nonalcoholic fruit punch...
...could be that the HYRC boys have visions of themselves as Central Intelligence men--the kind that sip cognacs in little Bulgarian cafes. The thought of agents around the College infecting piles of dirty laundry with wire recorders is terrifying. From this it is only a short step to Steve Roper buttonhole-cameras, boutonnieres that squirt poison, and two-way wrist radios...
...comparing the average comic strip to Li'l Abner is like comparing an ordinary cocktail to a dipperful of Capp's own Kickapoo Joy Juice, a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rise into the air, stiff as frozen codfish. Capp tries to give his readers not only a daily belly laugh, satirical Cappian comment on politics, sex, law enforcement, the housing situation and human rapacity, but surrealistic gobbets of action, mystery, horror and adventure as well...
John Gielgud, renowned British tragedian, joined members of the Theatre Group yesterday to sip claret at Fogg Museum. The actor, who is currently appearing in Boston in "The Lady's Not For Burning," asked the H.T.G. to keep the gathering small and informal...
...seven-year-old radio station will take time out to sip tea with Annex administrators and other friends of the group, who have pushed its progress through its short life. "No special program will be broadcast," Elizabeth Bibber '52, business manager, said yesterday. "In fact, the exact date of our 1000th birthday is hard to determine, but we know it was sometime this week," she added...