If Miller was perplexed, he would order a specific type of martini and drink it slowly.

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"They taste good for 10 minutes and they don't get any better, " says Mr. Arnold, who also prefers stirred drinks to ones shaken with ice if he plans to drink them slowly.

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His father was an heir to the Schilling spice fortune a gifted, troubled man who could never quite settle on a career and slowly fell to drink.

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Many of the birds, fish and animals that consume this water, depending on the amount of hazardous chemicals leaked into the pond or stream they drink from, will die quickly or slowly.

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When people drink arsenic-contaminated groundwater, it begins to kill slowly and painfully.

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Zengo, for instance, had been planning a new bottle service for several months but is rolling it out slowly to make sure there aren't issues over drink sizes.

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