Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...country?" Mississippi Republican Chairman Mike Retzer took the analogy a step further, asking, "If the President can't control Billy, how can he control Brezhnev?" In Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman Bob Hughes called the Billy episode "Watergate revisited," adding: "The idea of America's foremost beer drinker negotiating with Gaddafi or Hamilton Jordan negotiating with Panama over the Shah makes you wonder what the hell was the State Department doing...
...Offer him his wages in bottles. Vodka is also the ideal gift for minor officials from whom a small favor is needed. Since vodka flows as freely as the Volga in the U.S.S.R., why do so many Soviet citizens welcome it as either pay or present? For the regular drinker, vodka is expensive at $5.50 a half-liter. And the better brands, which are customarily used as currency and gifts, are often hard to find in stores...
Despite an initial desire to concentrate in economics--"Until Ec 10"--Spencer went on to major in religion. "It still hasn't struck me why people think it's strange," she says, adding, "People can't believe I'm a religion major, a rower, and a beer drinker. I don't see why it's such a strange combination...
...awoke the next morning in sterile Stillman to gray and white. Safely sheltered away from the outside's pall, he rolled over and roalled their whispers. Disease had attacked his glands, his spleen, his liver. Is he a drinker? they asked down the hall. No, his friends answered. But could we please have gamma globulin shots just to make sure? You won't get it, don't worry, his friends were told. He hoped his friends wouldn't get "it." Elsie's could not be seen from his bed, but no matter; the roast beef specials would wait, wait...