Word: bog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II, provided no offsetting lift because France turned in its own dollars for gold faster than other nations added dollars to their reserves. World trade, on the other hand, swelled by 81% in 1965 and 91% in 1966. If continued, those trends mean that international trade will bog down in time for lack of gold and money...
Brownie Points. An even graver charge is that in much of Protestantism -including many of the churches that bear Luther's name-his central insight into the primacy of faith has been lost in a bog of building campaigns, service agencies, relief programs and other church-instigated "good works." American Christianity, charges Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty, has fallen back on precisely the kind of spiritual error that the Reformation was designed to combat. The typical parishioner, adds Marty's colleague at the University of Chicago, Theologian Brian Gerrish, feels that he has "done something that puts...
...Joint Center and from the university administrators to the notion that the Center had a responsibility to assist the cities of Cambridge and Boston. Fears were expressed that the universities would become entangled in local politics and that town-gown conflicts would be exacerbated. Others predicted that scholars would bog down while trying to fight their way through the bewildering maze of political and bureaucratic jurisdictions that govern the metropolitan area. By now, however, most of the doubts have been resolved, and the Center plunges into issues as controversial as the effort to eliminate racial imbalance...
...Polish Bison Brand Vodka [Oct. 14]? A Bog-Fog? Better a Yucca-Flats. Merely have at hand four quarts of vodka, 15 3-oz. bottles of maraschino cherries, ten mashed oranges, lemons and limes-plus rinds, 1 lb. of cane sugar, 10 lbs. of ice cubes, and proceed to dump the whole mess into a wastebasket. Stirring recommended...
...Bog-Fogs & Black Martinis. Because of its versatility, vodka has also replaced rum as the prime ingredient in the more outlandish mixed drinks. Fruggers at The Daisy in Beverly Hills between exhibitions fuel up with White Russians (vodka, Kahlua and cream) or with the vodka Orange Julius. Their counterparts in Miami and Palm Beach go for the Bog-Fog (vodka and cranberry juice-known to New Englanders as the Cape Codder) or the Palm Bay Intrigue (pineapple wine with vodka and a squeeze of lime...