Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions of years," coos Mary Martin reassuringly. Preston, looking as if he were in protracted labor pains of his own, replies ruefully: "How did the men ever live through it?" And so it goes, from The First Spat to Son's Wild Oats-something involving a bottle of bourbon. Suddenly it is time for daughter to leave the nest, and Fond Father Waxes Wroth: "My daughter is marrying an idiot." Autumn leaves begin dappling the script; Preston and Martin, grey-wigged, pat the familiar bed farewell...
...since the Civil War (other than those kept out because of contested elections), and some have been allowed to retain their seats even while in jail. Many Congressmen believe that keeping a member out really punishes his constituents by depriving them of a voice, and Powell's velvety, bourbon-cured baritone is clearly the voice that pleases Harlem's voters. In November, though aware of his defiance of the courts, they gave him a twelfth term with 74% of the vote. To them, "Old Adam," preacher, politician and perennial bon vivant, is a supremely satisfying symbol-a Negro...
...Otto Habsburg's provocative entry." The Socialists have long talked darkly of the "threat" of a Habsburg restoration, though even the Habsburgs themselves are not expecting a royal comeback. Otto was exiled at the age of six. In the early years, his proud and persistent mother, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, tried every scheme to regain Habsburg honors for her son, even plotted unsuccessfully in the 1930s to marry him to Princess Maria of Italy in the hope that // Duce would present him with the Austrian throne. Of late, Otto has pledged loyalty to the republic. But after...
...four out of ten bowl and the same number play golf, and 34% belong to a country club or other sporting club. And TIME families are hospitable, too. In the two weeks before the questionnaires were sent, 74% entertained guests in their home; 81% serve liquor, with Scotch, gin, bourbon and vodka the preferred drinks...
...Vaux-le Vicomte was unwise enough to out-status the King with "the insolent and audacious luxury" of a house-warming for 6,000 people. With "mingled admiration and fury," the King banished Fouquet to a fortress and decided to outbuild everyone in the known world. Thus was the Bourbon system brought to its intricate perfection...