Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...injured, the ensuing explosion and chemical fires forced the evacuation of 2,800 residents. In Baton Rouge, La., last week, a preliminary hearing conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that there may have been another dangerous, if less esoteric, substance on board the train that day: bourbon...
...Nancy Reagan, French President François Mitterrand's wife Danielle, Ireland's President Patrick Hillery, Gary Grant, Frank Sinatra's wife Barbara, Film Mogul Sam Spiegel, Racing Driver Jackie Stewart, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Bertil of Sweden, Princess Benedikta of Denmark, Don Juan de Bourbon, father of Spain's King Juan-Carlos, Holland's Prince Bernhard, Grand Duchess Josephine of Luxembourg, Michael, former King of Rumania, Frederika, former Queen of Greece, and Prince Henri, pretender to the French throne. -ByJohnSkow...
...fellow Loner Stephen Herndon, who is hiding the shame and rejection of his own physician-father's alcoholism. By midstory Charlotte is on the sauce, Stephen is involved in a homosexual affair with a football star named Rolf, and both tumble into bed with another couple after a bourbon and pot party. At novel's end, Stephen is near catatonia, and Charlotte is institutionalized. One can hardly wait for Just Hold...
Most campaign promises have a limited scope. A recent candidate for jailor promised his neighbors to buy a new coffee pot and make sure the jail's toilet tissue dispenser was always full. Other aspirants rely on more tested means, like the hopeful who left bottles of bourbon on doorsteps throughout town. And occasionally the elections can get nasty. Last year, the independent candidate for sheriff shot his opponent and continued to campaign from the jail...
...what she calls a "salt consciousness," and adds, "I have not refilled the salt shaker since working on the story." Patricia Delaney, who reported on the cover from the Midwest, notes that her favorite Chinese restaurant is cutting back on salt, but the chefs inspired substitution of splashes of bourbon for soy sauce has proved "delectable." At home, Boston's Sue Wymelenberg banned salt from her table. "The taste of breads, pasta, cookies, omelets and fish was unmarred," she says. "But I didn't reckon on new potatoes and fresh peas-it took three zestless mouthfuls to bring...