Word: bourbonized
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...vote for him." He did slip once, though, when he told his visitors, all but one of them Negroes, how upset he had been at reports that his highway patrol had recently mistreated a couple of "niggers." Otherwise Wallace was as smooth and strong as bonded bourbon. He even gave the delegates autographed portraits of himself...
Scotch is aged in used barrels, which improve flavor and prevent undue evaporation. Best for the job are sherry-soaked, whiteoak barrels from Spain. Second best and far behind are used 50-gallon bourbon barrels from the U.S., in which most Scotch is matured. Because of rapidly rising Scotch demand and production, used bourbon barrels are becoming scarce, and have doubled in price over the past 18 months to $28 per cask...
There seemed to be so much else to talk about: the State of the Union speech, the early battles in the new Congress. Yet as Senators and Representatives met in the members' dining rooms or broke out the bourbon in their office suites, one subject held constant attention: Viet Nam. There was a growing feeling that a debate on U.S. policy was overdue, that mere continuation of the present line could only lead to disaster...
...health, the President instructed his physicians to issue a report, which came in the form of a question-and-answer document, prompted, it was explained, by questions that had been put to the White House in recent months. In sum, the report allowed as how the President takes a bourbon and branch water before dinner, swims occasionally, gets seven or eight hours of sound sleep, sometimes works in bed in the morning, and no longer smokes. Among other disclosures...
...looked like a scene from the Great Gold Rush. There they stood, rank upon frozen rank, along the icy river banks, occasionally stumbling back to toast numbed fingers over blazing fires in the zero-degree cold. Every motel for miles around was full. The ground was littered with empty bourbon bottles, bean cans, and instant-coffee jars. Signs warned: PROTECT YOUR ACCESS TO THE RIVER, and a productive "beat" (60 ft. of river frontage) sold for $5,000. But the only gold around was in somebody's teeth. The hardy types who lined the banks of the Skagit...