Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still sat there catching flies, and finally she handed me her half-finished drink. "You poor thing, you've been chasing me around all afternoon. You need this." I gratefully drained her glass--it was bourbon and ginger...
...recurring pattern of bloody revolt in French colonies from Indo-China to North Africa has sometimes suggested that France, like her Bourbon kings, has "learned nothing and forgotten nothing." Last week, as evidence to the contrary, France acted to forestall future Algerias, by launching a new deal in "Black Africa"-the little-known French domain that sprawls all the way from below the Equator to the Sahara. See FOREIGN NEWS, Timely Token...
...when a minor comedian named Gene Baylos successively plugged a vodka, a brand of rainboots and a bourbon on a five-minute, five-a-week local show called Punch Line last week, NBC's Manhattan station WRCA clamped down, announced that it would dock Baylos' $1,000 salary by $675-the price of three ten-second advertising spots. "It was a flagrant violation of policy," explained NBC. "We hope to teach him a lesson." Cried Baylos: "It was only a joke. Why do they pick on a broke little guy like me and never bother the big boys...
...question was just as puzzling to his contemporaries. Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte de Sade, was born in a Paris palace in 1740. His father was military ruler of four French provinces and lord of vast estates. His mother was of royal Bourbon blood. He was a youthful companion of the young Prince Louis-Joseph, fought as a cavalry officer in the Seven Years' War. At 23, he docilely married the daughter of a rich, petty aristocrat in a ceremony attended by King Louis XV and his Queen. Five months later he was arrested in a local bordello...
Loues Kane, of the College Shop, had two sellouts--whiskey-flavored toothpaste and a clay figure called "Zulu Booboo, the Goddess of Fertility." In the dentifrice department, the bourbon flavor is the most popular...