Word: sip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throw out the first ball at the postponed Senators-Yankees baseball opener. To the consternation of newsmen who had billed him as a southpaw, Harry Truman first tossed out a blooper with his right arm, obligingly threw another with his left for the cameramen. Then he settled back to sip a Coke in the bright spring sunlight, unexpectedly popped up half an inning early for the traditional seventh inning stretch. Final score: Yankees, 7; Senators...
...Sylvia Winant. The two New Yorkers, who have no children of their own, got the idea for It's Fun to Eat from watching their neighbors' struggles. On one side of each record, a boisterous breakfast, lunch or supper character - Doc Clock, Happity-Yappity Appetite and Sip-Sip Supper -coaxes the kiddies into putting away their toys and washing their hands. The other side hustles them into eating up every thing on their plates. It is all done to rollicking music...
...whom he gave a leather-bound copy of the New Testament and two pipes. He also got permission to preach hellfire-&-damnation sermons in churches in nine cities, from Moscow to Stalingrad. Before he was through, his hosts had even persuaded the alcohol-hating Baptist to try a sip of vodka. (His judgment: "It tasted like kerosene mixed with stump water...
...Sip, Sip, Sip. Young Ryder was not surprised when beautiful Lady Julia made noises like "a thin bat's squeak of sexuality" and became engaged to a rich Canadian, who gave her a tortoise with her initials set in diamonds on its shell. He was not surprised when his good friend Sebastian took to drinking on the sly. "My dear, such a sot," said Anthony Blanche. "Sip sip, sip like a dowager, all day." But when Ryder visited Brideshead, the magnificent family mansion, he was astonished to find that "religion predominated in the house," that the family diversified...
...occasion was far greater than any words Franklin Roosevelt spoke. As the Senators watched him-perceptibly leaner, slightly stooped over the table, following the text with his forefinger, rubbing his chin when he ad-libbed, occasionally taking a sip of water in a thin hand that patently trembled-they knew that he was talking primarily to them. In numberless ways, Franklin Roosevelt made his main point over & over again: I think Yalta is pretty good; it's not perfect, but it's a good start. I also know that 33 of you, Democrats and Republicans, can band together...