Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, to which the U.S. subscribes. Under GATT rules, the U.S. can neither match such export subsidies nor raise similar import barriers because it relies chiefly on other forms of taxation. Except for excise taxes on a few items-autos, alcohol and tobacco -the U.S. has no value-added taxes...
...part of the "Dynalens" system is an adjustable prism that is placed in front of the lens. It consists of two circular glass disks, one at each end of a short cylinder formed by a flexible bellows. The inside of the cylinder is filled with a clear liquid, usually alcohol. By tilting one or both of the glass plates, the cylinder can be made wedge-shaped, like a prism. Light beams entering the glass plate at one end of the prism are thus bent and emerge from the other plate at a different angle...
...study, for example, points out that despite statistics showing dramatic progress in medical care over the past decade, the amount of time the average American can expect, to spend in a sickbed or an institution has remained static. Illnesses stemming mainly from cigarettes, alcohol and a rich diet have undercut the advance...
...Alcohol. Mrs. Castle, 57, a lifelong Socialist and welfare-state evangelist, seems well suited to talk tough to trade unionists. The petite wife of Ted Castle, political editor of the Sun, a national daily, she can be a rugged infighter. In her former position as Minister of Transport, she pushed through legislation empowering police to give "Breathalyser" tests to drunken-driving suspects. That enraged British pub owners, who introduced "the bloody Barbara," a drink consisting of tomato juice and tonic-but no alcohol...
There was no way to find comfort. Liquor was out, since one nip of frigid high-proof alcohol although still liquid would freeze the mouth and throat and cause almost instant death. Swaddled in layer upon layer of goosedown and fur, the snowmobilers looked as bulky as brown bears. One driver rigged his wife's electric hair dryer into his helmet and face mask for added warmth. But nothing seemed to help much. On the second day the temperature dropped to 70° below zero. As the snowmobilers plowed ahead through Moose Creek and the village of North Pole...