Word: swig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill Grana scored two touchdowns and the first quarter wasn't even over yet. The guys with the Gordon Linen towels on their heads each took another swig. They couldn't have cared less...
...stood up for the kickoff. When we sat down the seats were wet again. The chill spread a bit farther. In front of us two guys were huddled together with Gordon Linen towels over their heads. They each took a swig from a bottle of rum. Dammit, I had forgotten the thermos of hot coffee...
...TIME correspondents around the U.S., were visiting laboratories and quizzing virologists to put together the cover story. Touring a virus and vaccine laboratory, Medicine Writer Cant donated five milliliters of blood for testing, later found that he was low on polio antibody, was persuaded to take a swig of oral polio vaccine. After Writer Cant and Senior Editor William Forbis had put the final touches on the cover story about Virologist John Enders* and medicine's battle against viruses, they reported feeling some new symptoms-probably attributable to their added knowledge, but nothing that could not be overcome...
Pausing occasionally for a swig of the Scotch and water on the stand before him.* Lloyd lectured the House on Britain's nagging problem of productivity, asked for standby power to tax companies 4 shillings (56?) per week for each worker they employ, as a means of encouraging them to switch to more efficient, labor-saving machinery. To fight inflation and help bolster sagging exports, the chancellor proposed that Parliament drop the system of fixing excise and purchase taxes by law, leave it to the government to manipulate the rates within limits as it sees fit, raising the taxes...
...cell No. 20 in Mexico City's Lecumberri Prison last week, a grey-haired prisoner lay on his bunk and refused all food, though he occasionally took a swig of water to ease his hunger pains. At 64, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico's No. 1 Communist and No. 1 living artist, was on a hunger strike. His stomach troubled him, but Siqueiros was adamant: "I will continue until we get justice...