Word: bourbon
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...parliamentary enemies of EDC burst out into the corridors of the Palais Bourbon, their faces flushed with certain victory. "He's killed it," crowed one. "Mendès has torpedoed EDC forever...
...plant outside town. At 2:30 a.m., a lightning bolt crackled into a rack house full of 100-proof whisky and started a fire that quickly spread to three other buildings. In all, 40,000 barrels-equal to 8,000,000 fifths-of Good Old Guckenheimer, and Bourbon Supreme and other brands were destroyed. Firemen stood helplessly outside a ring of flames so intense that a coal pile 100 yards away began to smolder...
...help keep the legislative gears well oiled, Charlie Halleck uses "the Clinic," a secluded Capitol office comparable to Democratic Leader (and former Speaker) Sam Rayburn's "Board of Education," where Mister Sam's friends can sip at a bourbon-and-branch-water. Teetotaler Martin rarely visits the Clinic, but there, at the end of a long day, Halleck quenches the thirst of his assistant whips and plans the next day's work...
...rose to deliver his accounting, Mendès got a one-minute ovation-very warm from the Communist left, warm from the Gaullist right, scattered or nonexistent from the moderate center, where ex-Foreign Minister Georges Bidault cocked his head towards a wall and elaborately did nothing. Palais Bourbon's tiny shelflike visitors' boxes were crowded; most of the diplomatic corps was there...
...hackydam" and " 'whittledycut' -which in Kentucky means a real fine horse race." Would it be unkind to suggest that such expressions may have been used by infiltrators of the Pennyroyal . . . or that your correspondent had been investigating that special flavor the limestone imparts to the bourbon...