Word: swigged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen Mary appeared and smiled benignly on the bustling scene. Under fluorescent lights, on 26 miles of counter, lay samples of nearly everything Britain produces-from jewelry, and tennis rackets strung with nylon, to men's suits made of plastic fabrics and dolls that could take a swig from a milk bottle, blow bubbles and weep realistic tears. A group of British models displayed highly exportable bathing suits. Britain's Socialist government begged British businessmen to get in there and pitch a good, hard, competitive game. The New Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius drove the point home...
Then Wu was jerked to his feet, stripped of his grey jacket. His arms were bound from behind with thin cord. He was led to a table for his last meal; his grim-jawed captors fed him a bowlful of noodles and poured a swig of hot rice wine through his lips. Shrilly Wu shouted: "Long live Sun Yat-sen!" He sang China's national anthem. Then police boosted Wu and his comrades into an open truck. On each man's back was a white placard noting his crime. Sirens wailing, the truck rumbled through Shanghai...
Pisco, a powerful grape brandy, is a Peruvian national institution. Haughty hacendados and barefoot Indian peasants swig it at births and wakes; special bottles are kept tucked away for anniversaries and visits from old friends. Its type and flavor depend largely on the grapes from which it is made; Peruvians say they can tell something about a man's character by the type he orders...
...prove to Iowa legislators that hog cholera virus might kill hogs but was harmless to human beings, the Iowa Farm Bureau's Attorney Carl ¶ Stephens downed a swig on the spot. He suffered no ill effects, but (as a possible carrier of hog cholera) was urged to stay away from hogs for at least 19 days. ¶ Shoving an 1,000-ton barge, the Federal Barge Lines' diesel towboat Harry Truman chuffed valiantly from New Orleans to St. Louis, failed by one hour and 17 minutes to match the 79-year-old record (three days...
...Bottle. During a speech to a country audience, Munoz once stopped to take a swig from a Coke bottle. "That's our man!" somebody yelled. "He drinks ,from the bottle!" "Wait a minute," Munoz broke in. "If you vote for me just because I drink from the bottle, you'll start voting for everybody who drinks out of bottles...