Word: bootleg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Africa's bootleg native drink, skokiaan (subject of a recent U.S. hit tune), is usually mixed by "skokiaan queens" who know how to spike it with enough methyl alcohol to provide the jolt that thrills but does not kill. The balance is so easily upset that natives often go mad or blind from the skokiaan they buy in the shebeens of the native quarters...
...laugh at people any more. The dialect story is out. Stories about races and creeds are bootleg items. Only the Irish have not laid down the law, and the Irish joke has been damaged because people have found out that Pat and Mike were really not Irishmen. All Irishmen are named Sean ... All this leaves Texas as the thing that the U.S. people can laugh about without looking over their shoulder or lowering their voices, and it is a good thing. The people which can't laugh at itself is going crazy...
...source. From predawn, when a rooster, the only unmusical creature he heard on the island, awoke him, he roamed the carnival-crowded streets of Port-of-Spain to hear such exotic instruments as steel drums, bongos and bamboo tamboo. In a hidden grove of palms, he even heard a bootleg concert of the long-banned jungle drums. One night at Port-of-Spain's Little Carib Theater the island's wild and inexorable rhythms got to Harman. Like everybody else, he began to do the jump-up. "Trinidad's music," he says, "is extraverted stuff that knocks...
Same-Day Service. Mrs. Jones eventually got well-fitted dentures at one of Chicago's three dental-school clinics, where the going rate is $30 to $75. And from her bitter experience the Chicago Dental Society got evidence that helped to put a score of bootleg dental-lab operators out of business and threatens nine conniving dentists with loss of their licenses...
...outcome of the Chicago cases was of national concern. Not only has the city more than its share of bootleg dental dealers in local trade; it is also home to virtually all the mail-order business. This undertakes to supply false teeth by copying old dentures mailed in, or-stranger still-by using impressions made by the victim at home with a do-it-yourself...