Word: bourbonic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much juice to allow for quiet nights lying at anchor in secluded coves...
...control−to declarations that "violence must be deplored, but . . ." The vital counsel of patience is lost in the competition among leaders to say, "Baby, you've got the whole world coming to you now"when the unalterable fact, as certain as the aging of a good bourbon, is that much time will elapse before all Negroes are free, black...
...guys and gals who are bored with Ford." A current magazine ad for Hudson's Bay Scotch shows a dozen other brands, advises that "now that you have acquired a taste for Scotch, you are ready for Hudson's Bay." An ad for Old Grand-Dad bourbon names half a dozen leading competitive brands in wishing them happy birthday "from the head of the family." U.S. Rubber promotes its Royal golf ball by picturing it with four better-known balls and the headline, "The five leading golf balls: only one is registered." This fall American Motors will specifically...
...finally penciled a note to Lynda: "We four members of the press, who have followed you every mile of the route, would like a few words with you. We feel that mosquito bites, muscular aches and sunburn will arouse your sympathy." They stuffed the note into a recently emptied bourbon bottle and dropped it offshore near Lynda's camp. "We knew their camp was dry," recalls Toni. "One of the National Geographic photographers had been around to bum a drink, and we thought we'd give them a laugh. We never thought she'd come over...
...Moscow!" During the French Revolution, a minority of priests and bishops welcomed the new republic, while thousands went bitterly into exile out of loyalty to the Bourbon kings. Since then, the "eldest daughter" of Catholicism has been torn periodically by quarrels over such issues as the Dreyfus Affair and separation of church and state in the 19th century, the worker-priest movement and the Algerian war in the 20th...