Word: bourbonized
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With Byrd's coaching. Carter and Congress seem headed toward mutual respect this session, though probably not affection. The man from Plains is not the kind of bourbon-sipping, backslapping politician who gets along easily with the good ole boys in Congress. But he intends to work harder at consulting and compromising with them, and in the face of the November elections, the Democrats seem more willing to make peace with their President. In his State of the Union message this week, Carter will outline his urgent goals for 1978: an energy bill, a tax cut, the passage of Panama...
...deadline eloquence: everything being gloriously overdone - at least a little. Friends from far and near in their dark suits standing around telling stories - solemnly at first - about their days and journeys with Hubert, beginning to chuckle and then to laugh out loud, and then reaching for an other bourbon to ease the long, low ache that comes from knowing a great man is gone. Had Hubert, like Tom Sawyer, been able to sneak under the back pews at his own services and witness the proceedings (and, who knows, he might have - he sort of believed in those things), he would...
...alias for the 40-year-old cowpuncher whom Kramer selected to sit for her portrait of yet another vanishing American. Although he is foreman on a 90,000-acre Panhandle ranch, Blanton is entering his middle age with a hatful of failed promise and a headful of bourbon. "He moved." writes the author, "in a kind of deep, prideful disappointment. He longed for something to restore him -a lost myth, a hero's West. He believed in that West, no matter how his cowboy's life, and the memory of his father's and grandfather...
...ticket stub offered a free drink at a nearby hotel. We coerced more than 40 people out of their ticket stubs and by 7 p.m. we arrived at the inn. We stayed there for more than three hours taking advantage of our free cocktails, although I had to drink bourbon-and-seven-hold-the-bourbon because I had to drive home...
...boxes in his office. He lives frugally, owns only four suits, and long ago he bought up a batch of cheap dime-store spectacles with progressively thicker lenses that he keeps in his office safe. After each working day, Ball holds court at his apartment, downing ginger ale and bourbon and spinning yarns for his cronies. It is a life that suits him, and until he "crosses the creek," he intends to go on with...