Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...installment about municipal mix-ups, Wichita, Kans., had just received 15 cases of wine from its sister city, Orleans, France. But the wine had to be held in a warehouse because a tax of $10.36 had to be paid, and state law forbade the city to pay taxes on liquor...
...Andover rules have been whittled down to the "essentials." Except for taking drugs, drinking liquor or engaging in sexual intercourse, students can do what they want where they want, as long as they meet class and athletic appointments and return to their dormitories by 10 p.m. (11 p.m. for seniors). Even room visiting between the sexes is now permitted, though it is limited to a couple of hours in the early evening...
...public drunkenness in the U.S. is generally less tolerated.) Alcohol is more available in Japan than in any of the hard-swilling Western nations. Commonly called mizu shobai, or "water business." it is a $40 billion enterprise, enhanced by 100,000 conveniently located vending machines dispensing hard liquor, beer and sake 24 hours a day. "In Japan," explains a Tokyo businessman, "alcohol plays the role of psychiatry in the West. Instead of analysis, we get rid of our inhibitions with a few drinks. I think we would explode without it." Kazuo Shimada, a psychologist, agrees: "If they were forced...
...clearly distinguished from a) problems of American society and American education as a whole and b) philosophical questions of the role of education. While the latter questions and problems are of interest to the national newsmagazine editor desperate to find a few hundred interesting words to insert between the liquor ads, they cannot be solved by the Harvard Faculty and should not be addressed by its members collectively. What the individual members say in their capacity as citizens is of course completely different. In their capacity as Harvard Faculty members our professors should have spent much less time debating...
...members of the Frescobaldi and Antinori wine families who boasted of having joined in a grape harvest, including barefoot trampling of the fruit. In Rome last Christmas, a financially strapped family of the nobility threw a picnic in their palazzo to which guests were invited to bring their own liquor. "They were very casual about it -people were wearing jeans and pearls, and everyone had a great time," says Querel. "The rich miss the old days, but they learn to live without them...