Word: bourbon
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...state dining room was dominated by two huge, brimming silver punch bowls topped with floating strawberries. "I asked Senator Hubert H. Humphrey if he thought it was spiked. He said, 'And how-with high-octane gas!' But attendants said one contained rum and pineapple juice, the other bourbon and apple juice...
...every denizen of the U.S. Capitol knows, legislative history is sometimes made over a friendly bipartisan glass of bourbon or Scotch. The convivial sessions in Charlie Halleck's "Clinic" or Lyndon Johnson's princely rumpus room can be as important as any committee hearing or party caucus. Even House Speaker John McCormack, a teetotaler, has decided as a matter of legislative policy to continue the gently liquid "Board of Education" meetings held by Sam Rayburn and earlier Speakers...
...Fall Down (M-G-M). Berry-berry Willart (Warren Beatty) takes a long, slow pull of bourbon. "Funny things happen t'me alla time," he says reflectively. "Dunno why. Dunno what I'm gonna do next. I just-live fer kicks!" And he lays back his ears and laughs like a jackass that can smell the old pea patch...
...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...