Word: barroomful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...place at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose staff helped plan the agenda. The Soviets were particularly open in what they revealed both about their country's environmental woes and on a personal level. At one point Thompson challenged Morgun to a game of eight ball on a barroom pool table in Juanita's, a Mexican restaurant. To his shock, Thompson not only got his match, but was soundly beaten...
...into their bodies. A much larger group contends that it is hypocritical to ban narcotics while allowing the sale of alcohol and tobacco, two substances that, this group insists, kill far more people by undermining their health and, in the case of alcohol, lead to innumerable auto crashes, barroom brawls and savage family fights. "We've already decriminalized two drugs, alcohol and tobacco," says Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz. "Now it's time to decriminalize a third, heroin...
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and alcohol. Home runs, strip joints, barroom brawls and Billy Martin. It seems the drug cloud of the past two or three seasons has finally lifted, and the grand old game is itself again, in stitches over another Martin episode, 40 stitches this time, around the left ear. A recounting of his baseball career is more than just a primer for an emergency room. It's an argument for wholesome depravity...
...polite spoof on the rituals of orthodox history. Prentiss is a young Irish pedant, fresh out of New College, Oxford, and itching to write a book about a failed nationalist uprising in 1867. The final skirmish, known as the Battle of Clonbrony Wood, has become exaggerated in story and barroom ditty: "Let all true Irishmen be good,/ And fight for what they hold./ Like all those heroes brave and bold,/ Who held Clonbrony Wood...
...Barroom philosophers offer all kinds of reasons for the return of the old classic. Martin Hehman of the Drake Hotel in Chicago cites maturity: "As you get older you don't drink all night, so you want a drink that lets you know you had a drink." Then there is the aesthetic appeal of cold, clear liquid in a crystal cone. At Nell's, a New York club, Aspiring Actress Sally Carruthers wears a flared crinoline mini to match her martini glass. "Tip me upside down and . . . well, the same silhouette," she giggles...