Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wager a bottle of good bourbon that 4-3-2 is also a winning combination...
...TIME picks up three matches from the top row, leaving 1-3-2, a winning combination, and takes the bourbon...
...vogue for group slaughter, made Eliot Ness a household name among the postwar young marrieds. The cult of the lowest common denominator had found its high priest in Ollie Treyz, and with an almost evangelical zeal he went on to schedule such landmarks of mediocrity as Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, The Roaring '20$, The Rifleman, The New Breed, Straightaway, My Three Sons, The Hathaways, Follow the Sun, Lawman, Adventures in Paradise and Bus Stop...
...other guy to make the first move, I remove even numbers of matches until he loses-almost always-unless he is playing the same rules." Winning the game is good for a free drink in most bars; in some spots matches are dispensed with, and shot-glasses of bourbon are used as pawns, each being downed as it is removed. This frequently results in the players' being removed also before the game is finished...
...strain of meeting people and facing the world, he relies partly on cigarettes (two packs a day), but mostly on drink and pills. A trifle defensively, Williams puts his intake of liquor at half of a fifth a day. "It's more like half a fifth of bourbon and half a fifth of vodka," says a friend. Williams at times takes half a Dexamyl to "pep up," 1½ Seconals a day "to smooth things over," and two Miltowns with Scotch to go to sleep...