Word: bourbonized
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Proclaiming itself as the Host to the Future, the Big Easy is awash in red, white, and blue--from the business district to Bourbon Street. For a city that has suffered since oil prices collapsed, Republicans, and the money they'll spend this week, are a welcome sight...
...city is also doing all it can to keep those thousands of conventiongoers happy. For the faithful, they're holding an ecumenical prayer breakfast this morning. And on Bourbon Street, the strip joints and taverns are draped in patriotic bunting. The Hyatt Hotel, host to thousands of convention journalists, is graced with an inflated elephant four stories high...
...Bourbon isn't strictly the devil's domain. On the street corners, folks in "Jesus Saves" T-shirts battle to save souls. One man carries a sign past the pubs, proclaiming, "Jesus Saves From Sin, Death, and Hell," but his message is largely ignored...
...outnumber residents and crew cuts never went out of fashion. "I don't know whether Crook County has some rare substance in the air that causes people to think like the average voter," muses County Judge Dick Hoppes. Jokes Barber Jake Lewis: "If it's in the water, the bourbon probably kills...
...came another call, purportedly from Brown-Forman (makers of Jack Daniel's whiskey). A few code words and computer keystrokes later, and $19.7 ( million slid with the smoothness of sipping bourbon from Brown-Forman's account, through the New York computers of Chase Manhattan Bank and into the account of "Walter Newman" at Vienna's Focobank. At 9:34, an additional $25 million flew from the ledgers of United Airlines to Citibank for relay to the account of "GTL Industries" at Creditanstalt...