Word: sips
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...Manhattan, guests at a round of parties will sip their drinks in the dark...
...prefer to drink their vodka "neat." I recently tried to concoct a truly Russian mixed drink-vodka and beet borscht, blended with a dab of sour cream and topped off with a miniature boiled potato. My frothy, fuchsia discovery, dubbed "The Volga Boatman," was a pretty drink. But one sip told me it was aptly named. It tasted like river silt...
...sometimes leaves without trading the customary pleasantries. The more genial Teddy is generally well accepted and is working his way into the Senate "Establishment" by dint of such seemingly inconsequential actions as lingering in Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland's office one morning a few years ago to sip bourbon with him. "Teddy's more casual," says Fred Holborn, a White House aide under J.F.K. "Ask Teddy to put more bite into a speech, and he'll refuse, saying...
...only did he record all the gos sip, true and untrue; he also took time out to describe the works he most ad mired. Among them were Giotto's 14th century frescoes, presumably on the life of the Virgin, in Florence's Badia church. Particularly singled out by Vasari was the panel showing "Our Lady when she is announced...
...such as abstention from both beef and pork -appear to have been borrowed from Islam or Hinduism. But in their temples, which nonbelievers are forbidden to enter, the Parsis still worship fire, which was Zoroaster's chosen symbol of divine power. At their marriage feasts, wedded couples ceremoniously sip bull's urine because it allegedly purifies both body and soul...