Word: swigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suite. Fresh bows to the businessman are now made by Britain's Socialist Novelist J. B. Priestley in The Magicians and the U.S.'s Republican Novelist Howard Swiggett in The Power and the Prize. Priestley's book is suave, but wanders off into drawing-room speculation; Swig-gett's novel is crude, though closer to boardroom politics...
...garrulous others, also, gabbing and garlanded from one nest of culture-vultures to another: people selling the English way of life and condemning the American way as they swig and guzzle through it; people resurrecting the theories of surrealism for the benefit of remote parochial female audiences who did not know it, was dead, not having ever known it had been alive; people talking about Etruscan pots and pans to a bunch of dead pans and wealthy pots in Boston...
...ribs the comrades unmercifully. "Viatcheslav Mikhailovitch," he yelled at Molotov during one gorodki game, "you hold the stick like an old woman with a broom!" Sputtered Molotov: "I'd like to see you try to play gorodki with glasses on!" Watching Budenny, the handle-bar-mustached old cavalryman, swig vodka at dinner, Stalin joshed: "Our Marshal goes through the vodka like Suvarov.* Too bad he doesn't resemble Suvarov in other ways...
...Been Saying . . ." Stengel paused to take a swig of beer, and went on: "I got this guy [Infielder Gil McDougald]. He may look funny at bat [average: .306], but he was the best rookie last year. He can play second or third. I don't know where I'll play him . . . I'm still experimenting ... I still got the best utility infielder [Billy Martin*] in the majors . . . And how about that guy [$65,000 bonus-boy Andy Carey] on third today? Got three hits, didn't he? . . . What's the matter with...
Among the men who made steel in Pittsburgh, the strongest of all was "Hunkie" Joe Magarac. He was born in an ore mine and grew 7 ft. tall. He could gulp a gallon of prunejack in a single swig, hoist an 850-lb. steel dolly like a paperweight and twist it like a pretzel. One day, when Magarac took off his shirt, fellow workers discovered the source of his strength: Joe was made of steel...