Word: bracer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chilly fall day at Shannon Airport five years ago, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Stan ("Postcards") Delaplane stepped up to a bar for a bracer. From the other side, he was handed a drink he had never tasted before. Delaplane inquired and got-complete with an Irishman's flair for a tale-Bartender Joe Sheridan's explanation of the origin of the drink...
...grisly torture sequence and a suicide intervene before Bond can really call his mission accomplished. Author Fleming keeps his incidents and characters spinning through their paces like juggling balls. As for Bond, he might be Marlowe's younger brother except that he never takes coffee for a bracer, just one large Martini laced with vodka...
...news that Britain-for 200 years "ruler of the waves"-was now a third-rate naval power sent M.P.s racing to the downstairs bar for a bracer. The Daily Express said it was "chilled and startled," but the facts were plain...
...hard to take this as anything more than a tough old soldier's morale-stiffening bracer for worse ordeals yet to come. At the time Walker spoke, the line was a sprawling 200-mile loop with the Reds a long way from Pusan on the east coast, too close for comfort on the south. Walker just did not have enough men to stand fast on such a line. On flat terrain a division is normally expected to hold no more than six miles of front; in rugged Korea, where routes of advance are channeled, a division might protect...