Word: liquored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...train no longer leaves for Narragansett Race Track. A few years ago the bar man in the club car would fill up the glasses of exam period refugees and talk of the day he tore his shirt on the liquor cabinet and bet on a 30-1 shot named Torn Shirt in the fifth. "She'll win it easy," he said. "I mean it's as good a way as any to pick a horse...
...there was no response, and two women observers boarded an Eighth Avenue express. The victim, wearing an Eisenhower jacket and old slacks, stood near a pole in the center of the coach. He carried a cane if he was playing an invalid; if feigning drunkenness, he smelled of liquor and carried a bottle tightly wrapped in a brown paper bag. After the train departed the station, the victim suddenly staggered, collapsed and lay on the floor...
...thrift-type goods and do-it-yourself repairs on their homes and autos. In a sluggish retail market, sales of retread tires, home-barbering kits and sewing machines have lately shown substantial increases. The trend has even affected holiday celebrations. Last week the fastest-moving item in many U.S. liquor outlets was Cold Duck,* a mixture of domestic sparkling burgundy and champagne that generally sells for from $2 to $3 a fifth compared with about $5 for domestic vintage champagne...
...Mary Cobb Bugg, 37, an Atlanta mother of two and part-time antique dealer, is dismayed by the drug culture: This generation is getting as hung up on drugs as ours did on liquor. My mother used to scream at me not to use liquor, and I'll be doing the same with my children about drugs. There is no immorality in either one; the dangers are practical. People can get on these drug trips and not come back. I'm just scared to death of drugs, including marijuana, which might lead to addiction to harder things. Anyway...