Word: bourbon
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Halsey had unbosomed even more perilous confessions. A non-believer in the strict Navy regulations against liquor aboard ship, he had carried 100 gallons of bourbon for his pilots. Said the Admiral: "To a man who has just had a tense, hazardous flight or a wet watch there is no substitute for a tot of sound spirits, as the Royal Navy well knows...
...greying ex-doughboys of the old guard were determined to keep their end up, in spite of the steely face of the metropolis and their own arthritis. Having already captured more U.S. cities with water pistols than Grant, Lee or Cornwallis ever took with gunpowder, and fortified by Bourbon and memories, they poured into Times Square by the noisy thousands and made it theirs...
...Washington wedding reception, James F. Byrnes, retired U.S. Secretary of State, found an epigram, in his bourbon: "There are no new differences between Russia and the rest of the world. It is just that the same old differences have been perfected...
Benton had been wanting to paint salty, sociable old ex-Editor Hough for quite a while, he said, "but I figured I'd have to lead him up to it gradually. We were having some bourbon and cistern water at his place when I told him, 'By God, I'm going to paint your picture.' We had a good time at it. After we were finished for the day we'd have a drink and then I'd take him home and we'd have another drink...
...wanted first to recall the struggles of the famous "Three Days of Glory" [when Bourbon Charles X was dethroned] with a march both terrible and despairing, to be played during the procession; then to present a sort of funeral discourse or farewell addressed to the illustrious dead . . . and finally to intone a hymn of glory as an apotheosis, to be played while the eyes of all should be fixed on the tall column [in the Place de la Bastille], crowned by the figure of Liberty...