Word: bourbon
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...product, a fruity concoction of trade secrets (rumored to be apricot brandy and bourbon), is a favorite of elderly ladies, is sometimes served with cracked ice and a canned peach in a solid-stemmed goblet...
...acquisitions. Maintenance cost, including the salaries of 322 civil service personnel, are borne by the Government. These costs come to $1,300,000 a year. In the same period, an average 1,779,088 taxpayers visit the gallery, enjoy a feast of treasures that no Medici prince or Bourbon King ever matched...
With quick, nimble feet France's Premier Mendes-France danced around the political quicksands of the Palais Bourbon last week and brought German rearmament so close to ratification that Russia responded with her most powerful propaganda attack on France in years...
...offer has been hanging fire for a year: "They tell you it probably won't be approved and if you insist on applying they just drag their feet until you withdraw." Another businessman with $600,000 to invest sat in the Imperial Hotel last week sipping bourbon and complained: "I'll use up all the money I've come to invest paying whisky and hotel bills...
...disease: a chronic high fever to know everything. The Embattled Philosopher tells the story of how Denis Diderot, philosopher, encyclopedist, playwright, novelist, art critic, conversationalist and lover, came to personify the French 18th century, and how he created the intellectual Trojan horse that led to the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy. It is the first biography of Diderot to appear in English in three-quarters of a century, and it is a good one. Author Lester G. Crocker, a Goucher College professor and former movie writer, knows how to blow the dust off his subject, and bring both an 18th...