Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried all my life to drink," Helen Hayes told a Manhattan interviewer, "and I don't like it. I consort with nobody but drinkers. I married a good two-fisted drinker. Once I felt I had found something I could drink-vodka. But it was the same as with every other drink. I just got sleepy and had to be taken home...
...turned off four days a week. At year's end the Russian children had no new toys for the New Year's celebration. There were no red-cloaked wooden replicas of Dyed Moross (Granddad Frost). There was no smoked salmon, no pickled herring, no goose, no vodka, no coffee for the grownups. But there was rejoicing. The Rodina (Motherland) had been saved for the second time in two years and now victory and peace could...
...trek of world dignitaries to Moscow in 1942 brought Stalin out of his inscrutable shell, revealed a pleasant host and an expert at playing his cards in international affairs. At banquets for such men as Winston Churchill, W. Averill Harriman and Wendell Willkie, Host Stalin drank his vodka straight, talked the same way. He sent Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov to London and Washington to promote the second front and jack up laggard shipments of war materiel. In two letters to Henry Cassidy of the A.P., Stalin shrewdly used the world's headlines to state the Russian case for more...
...wasn't primarily Massachusetts Hall, Plympton Street, Professor Frisky and other permanent fixtures; it was rather the people he had met. The big guy peeping out happily from under a pile of papers and cuddling his vodka, the other one getting yanked out of a Quadrangle tree by a bunch of 'Cliffe-dwellers, irreproachable Paul and lovable Georgie. Not to mention the blond visionary and the albuminous adolescent and, least as well as last, the warm stone from Washington Square. And the things he had done; the beer he had drunk in the Sanctum in honor of his ancestors...
...seamen, who were conducted to a survivors' camp below Murmansk, were housed in tin-roofed barracks, which resounded smartly to shrapnel all day long. When they first got there, they were inspected for injuries by Russian doctors, who administered vodka to the low in spirit. Haskell described the entire crew as low in spirit. They had been subjected to the horrors of one percent beverage in Iceland...