Word: applejack
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...fail to intoxicate, that are diluted by too much intellectual ice. There are such grand old but long-familiar individualists as Martini-clever e. e. cummings (with lemon peel) and hard-cider-happy Robert Frost. The younger men frantically mix their drinks, from opaque Bloody Marys to phony-bucolic applejack. Mostly they are reduced to talking to each other...
...home-brewing of head-splitting Calvados (applejack) in Normandy was to be sharply curtailed. Alcoholic contents of wine-based apéritifs were cut, and liquor advertising was to be strictly limited in the future. Besides all this, Mendès planned to ask Parliament for legislation raising liquor taxes and imposing stiff penalties (up to a year in prison) for public drunkenness...
...Normandy, the checkup showed, children from 18 months up drink the local Calvados (homemade applejack) at meals and between meals. In the Vendée, schoolchildren pack a bottle of wine in their lunch baskets; if school is far from home, they take an extra bottle to fortify them for the long trip back. In La Roche-sur-Yon, a three-year-old boy was admitted to a clinic after his family had tried to cure him of worms with dosages of Pernod. In a town near by, a 19-month-old infant died of acute alcoholism...
Every Frenchman knows Calvados, the fiery Norman applejack, but few knew much about the man from Calvados. When Joseph Laniel rose in the tribunal of the National Assembly last week to make his bid to become Premier of France, he brought to that jaded assembly something of the freshness of the Normandy apple country he represents. A friendly, ruddy-faced man of 63, barrel-chested Assemblyman Laniel offered a "maybe-yes maybe-no" program with all the tight-fisted caution of a Norman farmer. After 36 days of bitter inter-party feuding, the fact that Joseph Laniel was relatively unknown...
...Dartmouth, nine students stood by, watching with idle curiosity, while a couple of freshmen fed an eight-year-old boy playing around their dormitory enough applejack and rye whisky to get him drunk. Editorialized the Dartmouth paper: "It is the job of every man on the campus to give battle to that fatuous stereotype of the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, hard-cursing Dartmouth...