• She had a wilder side as well, occasionally missing her curfew, drinking a beer and smoking.

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  • He finds himself sitting in the neighborhood bar drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going there for one.

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  • Rusk, 67, a former machinist and painter who admitted on a 1992 medical exam to drinking a six-pack of beer a day and occasionally using "amphetamine and IV crank, " blamed his shortness of breath on brake pads even though he worked part-time as a car mechanic and started smoking in 1951.

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  • This, on the heels of a beer-drinking contest that pitted an American against a Canadian and a guy from the U.K. The loser--the Brit--climbs into an enclosed waterslide that snakes along the restaurant's ceiling and sloshes into the lagoon outside.

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  • "Then I relaxed a little, went out to lunch, started telling stories while drinking beer" with a friend, a cancer epidemiologist.

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  • Moments later, he called police when he spotted a man drinking beer in trouble-prone Farnum Park.

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  • Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence while drinking beer in a tavern.

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  • Recreation at the end of the day consists of listening to Mexican pop music and drinking beer for a dollar a can.

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  • Andrei, who looked like a Russian George Clooney, was drinking a litre can of Baltica beer and heading north, beyond the town of Neryungri, to work in a mine.

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  • The loser of one popular game has to do a "forfeit, " such as singing "Puff the Magic Dragon" at the top of the mast, drinking beer through a snorkel and even swimming in shark-infested water.

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  • This time, he merely sat in his palace, drinking beer and eating a lot of charcuterie.

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  • There are always a few cowboys drinking Pearl beer and listening to live music, often played by Arkey himself.

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  • Bouchard, who works with firearm dealers to make sure they are compliant with the law, likens the situation to underage drinking: If someone can't get a beer, they may find someone who can buy it for them.

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  • This new generation of beer demands a different kind of drinking: Raise a glass, and drain it slowly.

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  • Which is why drinking beer and then joking about it at a company meeting to build camaraderie with his employees makes perfect sense.

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  • "Seeing all these Scottish fans drinking beer in the streets of Liverpool was a bit of a shock for an 11-year-old boy from Pen Llyn, " he said.

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  • Seventeen of the students had piled into it, drinking beer and telling stories, said Will Jordan, a senior and one of the builders.

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  • Others, like a would-be dentist, are too busy celebrating and drinking beer to think about the future.

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  • He was seen as a old-school oil man, happier having a beer with rig workers than, like Lord Browne, drinking fine wine with prime ministers and presidents.

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  • The second is a slick, warm, redemptive comedy, written by and starring Dany Boon, a French comic, which overturns French prejudices about the beer-drinking, rain-soaked north.

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  • She reads fashion magazines for make-up tips and how to keep slim with the right vegetable juices, listens to a digital music player overflowing with the latest Hong Kong Cantopop songs, and recently watched dubbed Korean soap operas on a PC with her girlfriends at her factory dorm munching snacks and drinking beer.

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  • So too are 45, 000 jobs a cost: these are 45, 000 people who cannot be drinking or making beer, purifying water or caring for old folks.

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  • While dirndls still give a nod to tradition with wide skirts, corsets and aprons, designers have given the outfit a modern twist with brighter colours, fresh design and a little extra room in the corset to allow for plenty of beer drinking.

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  • Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.

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  • Two of its grads have taken the college drinking game of beer pong (also known as Beirut) off the keg and party circuit and turned it into a business with competitions, merchandise and an active community of players on its website.

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