Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer, I wandered by the baby contest that was being held at the Band-shell, my town's coquina-rock version of the Hollywood Bowl by the Atlantic Ocean. There, costumed boys and girls two and three years old were given their first taste of the footlights, the heady liquor of performing for an audience. The three winners in the boys' division that year were dressed as an Indian, a cowboy, and the last wore a minutely detailed copy of a Special Forces uniform. A sweating man in tuxedo lined the three up in front of a battery of Chamber...
...Fine desserts. A few weeks ago, American Brands, formerly American Tobacco Co., agreed to buy Andrew Jergens, the hand-lotion and cosmetics manufacturer. American also owns or controls James Beam distillers, Duffy-Mott foods and Swingline, a maker of stapling machines. Liggett & Myers, which has moved into liquor, pet foods and household cleaners, gets just over half of its sales outside the tobacco field. Philip Morris owns Miller High Life beer, Clark chewing gum and Personna razor blades...
...many who knew him and the millions who watched him from afar, the life of Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing was a montage of endearing and memorable vignettes. In some of them he was the Populist Prince, handing out miniature liquor bottles at an old folks' home ("Holy water! That's what it is! But don't sprinkle it around. Pour it down!"). In others he was the Court Clown mugging shamelessly in a sailor's hat or a baseball cap. On a cold November day in 1963 he was the nation...
...place is at stake since Brown made such an early-season rush for the coveted cellar, emblematic of a school which places scholarship over athletic prowess. Dartmouth, of course, has never finished last. There should be a lot of passing thanks to Poncho Micir, Don Jackson, and all the liquor in the stands, and when everyone finally gets to go home, the winner will be Columbia...
...music insists on gut-bucket lyrics that embody the simple, almost parabolic forces behind rural southern culture. In the liquor-making, nigger-hating, broad-fucking, communities that spawned country music they wanted to hear it straight and with guts and if that meant doing away with qualifying, complicating details that...