Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masculine Pentagon world, McElroy is a man's man: he can be a two-fisted bourbon drinker, barely manages to suppress a lifelong passion for shooting craps, has a short-fuse temper and can use four-letter language that does not spell TIDE. As Defense Secretary he must walk the tightrope between sufficient defense and national extravagance; McElroy's own nature is such that he could, without batting an eye, decide to spend $30 million for Procter & Gamble to buy Clorox, yet at home in Cincinnati he long kept close personal tabs on the amount of gasoline...
Kudos to TIME for a fine understanding piece on music. Selfishly wish we had been mentioned. We have commissioned and recorded on Louisville Orchestra label, and also recorded in the "still" country (bourbon, that...
...commercial journals that are published in most U.S. cities, Denver's business weekly bears as much resemblance as sour-mash bourbon to Sanka. Known as Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, after Editor and Publisher Eugene Sisto Cervi, the thriving $12-a-year Denver paper is a sassy, fact-crammed compendium of personals, local business transactions (including almost every new car sale in town) and well-honed gibes at such unlikely targets as the Chamber of Commerce, complacent businessmen, Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News and the powerful Denver Post. Gene Cervi, 50, onetime Colorado State Democratic Chairman...
...Texas home at Uvalde, onetime Vice President John Nance ("Cactus Jack'') Garner turned 89, struck a pose of grizzled gumption for a birthday photo. His birthday program: a few "blows for liberty" (bourbon and branch water), no outing, many visitors...
...stench of decay was recognizable in Parisian cinemas where newsreel audiences booed and jeered an endless procession of politicos marching vainly into the Palais Bourbon to argue and temporize. Railway workers, bus drivers, mailmen, stagehands, customs inspectors, garbage collectors, undertakers and thousands of other French workers walked out in a paralyzing general strike, leaving Paris streets empty of buses and littered with trash. Unless the government can persuade the Bank of France to lend it 250 billion francs, it will not be able even to meet its next civil-service payroll...