Word: swig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent fevers and a host of other ailments. Sooner or later, shrewd Gallic hôteliers were sure to figure that what is good for man is also good for beasts. One fellow with the soul of a pressagent finally hit on the thought that a swig or two from La Bourboule's springs might change a candidate for the horse butchers into a stakes-winning thoroughbred...
...found him. they politely invited him back to Deans for "a little private party." Beg refused, so the players took him anyway-according to Beg-dislocating one of his arms in the process. At Deans, the Pakistani recounted later, the cricketers doused him with water and forced him to swig some whisky, a beverage which he, as a Moslem, had never tasted voluntarily. Not until a team of Pakistani cricketers heard about Beg's ordeal and descended on the party was he rescued from his hosts...
...alcoholics about to be released. The most pitiful shots were morning-after scenes in a Philadelphia Magistrates' Court, where the drunk and disorderly were up for sentencing; the most unnerving came when, back in Moriarty's bar, Announcer Grauer hoisted his highball glass and took a final swig as the program ended...
Last week, no longer a warden, Fernand Billa went on trial for "criminal negligence." One of the beneficiaries of his kindness, himself on trial for forging his own passes out of the prison, did his best to help. "Sometimes I gave him a swig of red Bordeaux or a chicken wing," testified the prisoner. "He was my guest, that's all." Billa's lawyer entered an eloquent appeal: "Billa is a pioneer of the new penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this...
Throughout France's wine areas, many children take a swig every time the jug is passed. In the Vendée, a local health officer asked a farmer's wife why her two infants were flushed and screaming. Explained the mother placidly: "Last night was the Communion supper. They drank one more Triple Sec than usual...