Word: sips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...upper-class white Salisbury suburb of Highlands on a sunny Sunday afternoon, George and Jeanette Smith sip gin-and-tonic "sundowners" around the swimming pool behind their handsome $50,000 two-story stone home. Both are Rhodesian-born and -bred, in their late 30s, and not particularly prosperous by Salisbury standards. "We couldn 't afford to live like this anywhere else," admits George, a junior partner in a local law firm. Like many other white Rhodesians, he has been called up for military reserve duty three times in the past year, and has had to spend 82 days away...
...their feature, the three describe the type of person college breeds. "Who but soigne college graduates could summon the requisite poise to carry on an extemporaneous discussion of Marxian dialectics, gesticulate emphatically with a lit cigarette (preferably a Sobranie Black Russian), and punctuate his remarks with a polite sip from his drink (Wild Turkey on the rocks or some Pernod)?" they...