Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside, Walton has converted a portable bar into a health-food stand: bottles of apple juice, jars of honey, and sacks of fruit replacing the bourbon and Scotch. An enormous water bed dominates one corner, and a photograph of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation, sits in a frame on his desk. The only visitors Walton receives are "the friends who accept me for what I am." They include his girl friend Susan, a tall, attractive brunette whom Walton has been dating off and on since his sophomore year. Other regulars include teammates Greg Lee, Tommy Curtis...
...House, where his blarney and good fellowship made him a quick favorite. O'Neill regularly attended the select meetings of Sam Rayburn's "board of education," afterhours sessions in the Speaker's office where the likes of Lyndon Johnson, Albert and McCormack met over bourbon to discuss the business of Congress...
...rode to Legion Field that Saturday on a chartered bus, since no mortal could have braved the flood of football traffic that always took over downtown Birmingham on Auburn-Alabama day. Our fellow travellers were a wild assortment of banner-waving, horn-blowing, bourbon-swigging Alabama fans. Along the way, the men had cursing battles, sang obscene fight songs, and bet themselves into insolvency over the outcome of the game...
Quick to hop on the Watergate wagon, Columbia Records corralled the Senate select committee chairman to make a record for them called Senator Sam at Home. Result: a coup running over with homilies. Bloviating through 77 years of memories, Sam Ervin laces his bourbon with saccharin and recites his favorite lyrics-Grow Tall My Son and Through the Years. Moving to sterner stuff (our national anthem, the First Amendment and Rudyard Kipling's ode to the governing class: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs"), Uncle Sam then opines that the King James...
...publicity has generated a climate of fear that takes the form of black humor at the Silver Bay Tavern, where patrons order "bourbon and asbestos." Silver Bay residents know that there are few other good jobs for hundreds of miles around. They are thus fiercely loyal to the company and furious at the Government, the conservationists and the news media. "We don't think there's a health issue," says Mayor Frank Scheuring. "Nothing has been proved...