Word: tippler
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...Soviet Union's top tippler, Nikita Khrushchev, has turned upon one of his closest friends, John Barleycorn, according to Pravda. In Minsk for a pep talk to collective farmers, Khrushchev warmed to his subject by calling for a crackdown on moonshiners: "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the state, against society, and deserves punishment!" This brought him around to his distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio...
...Hepburn, beefing up like a young bull, was a big joke, but Doug stuck to his routine. After he quit high school, he worked summers as a lifeguard at city beaches, winters as a hotel doorman. Once, separating two drunks grappling in the lobby, Doug yanked at the top tippler, accidentally sent him hurtling through the air like Superman. In local weight-lifting contests, Doug sometimes claimed to have broken a world record; most spectators figured he was bragging. Vancouver newspapers buried Doug's exploits as sports-page filler stuff. Sometimes, in news famines, the papers filled space with...
...Stubby") Cole, a hard-working and respected member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. The two men had to fight it out for the Republican nomination. Unable to match his opponent's record, Hall tried to smear it. He implied (without evidence) that Cole was a tippler who leaked atomic secrets to Communist spies while in his cups. For this. Hall was rawhided on the floor of the House by a dozen Representatives (TIME...
Operatic Touch. Near Nishnabotna, Mo., Tippler Clarence Carmen was arrested for shooting up a meeting of the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...show business in 1840 with a nest egg of $60,000, the original Siamese pair married sisters Adelaide and Sarah Yates, adopted the name of Bunker, and settled in the house where Farmer Robert died last week. Both were good farmers. Eng was a sobersided teetotaler; Chang a temperamental tippler. Once, say the Carolina neighbors, the brothers were repairing the roof of their house when they had a quarrel. Chang seized a hammer and threatened to clout Eng with it and knock him to the ground...