Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minus 3 hours), a truck drove up and began pumping alcohol into the Viking II. Then came men in plastic suits to fill it with strong, corrosive hydrogen peroxide. The last fuel to enter the tanks was "lox" (liquid oxygen...
...blew off the rocket's nose. Unstream-lined by separation, the parts tumbled over & over. As they fell toward the earth, observers saw silvery flashes of sunlight reflected from aluminum. Dust rose from the desert, and back from eight miles away came a muffled sound of an alcohol-oxygen explosion...
...Questions? In Knoxville, Tenn., John O. Blair got a drunken-driving charge dismissed after he stoutly insisted that he was not drunk, but merely shaken by eating overripe watermelon and beer. In Johnson City, Tenn., State Alcohol Tax Agent Jess C. Ford, charged with drunken driving and possession of liquor, explained that it was all in the line of duty: he took a drink at a bootlegger's only to allay suspicion, carried the bottle with him to further the deception...
...Braves have been dragging along ten or more games behind the pace-setting St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, and like all good managers, Southworth hates to lose. A high-strung man who gave up drinking 14 years ago when he realized that alcohol had him down, he has been afflicted this summer with headaches and insomnia. "I never used to know what other fellows meant when they talked about headaches," said Billy...
...fierce Abolitionist, and she had organized a society to debate slavery and female suffrage. Her response to the new challenge: bottling and selling a home medicine she had been using for years. Ingredients: a blend of herbs, including true-unicorn and pleurisy root, steeped and macerated in an 18% alcohol base (about as potent as sherry). Taste: mildly bitter...