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...Aussie Swig...
Someone hands Margaret Court a big cup of Budweiser and Danny bolts for it. She gives him the cup and he takes a good Aussie swig with both hands firmly around the rim and as he plops it down on her severe white tennis dress. He has also managed to attain a beard of froth...
...horses again. Before the race in the afternoon we get 'em ready. Then we wash 'em and walk 'em after each race. Feeding time might go up till 7:00 or 8:00. This is no life on the backside." Irving opened a bottle of whiskey and took a swig. "Then they wonder why the groom gets drunk...
...sense of entertainment and humor. One of Benton & Bowles's most successful TV ads, for example, features the bull-necked Korean who played the karate expert Odd Job in Goldfinger. Seized with a coughing fit, he nearly chops down his house with involuntary hand swipes before a swig of Vick's Formula 44 cough medicine calms him down. Even Ted Bates & Co., perennial champion of the hard sell, is going soft. It has dropped the sledgehammer animations it long used to illustrate (and often give) headache pain, and has turned instead to mildly preposterous household scenes...
...successive days, and eight weeks later had a normal healthy boy. Dr. Fuchs then refined the method, so that he now takes doubly sterile (spore-free as well as germfree) alcohol and makes a solution about as strong as a tall highball. Instead of giving patients a swig, he drips it into their veins. Among 100 patients so far treated this way at New York Hospital, and at least 200 more at White Medical Center in Los Angeles, the alcohol cut short the contractions in about 70% and delayed birth for as long as 15 weeks...