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Word: casks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...making of one of Her Majesty's ministers in Britain is something akin to turning out a good Scotch whisky. It takes considerable mellowing in the cask of Commons, a goodly bit of gentle sloshing about in the lower recesses of the ship of state and a year or two in the political cellar of some influential member of Her Majesty's government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill Reshuffle | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...grad recalled in a letter to the CRIMSON "the good old days, when...a cask containing a quantiy of good cheer from a neighboring distillery was set up in the middle of the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Will Ballot Today in Class Day Committee Election | 3/7/1950 | See Source »

...neither a fool with a frozen smile, Nor a sad old toad in a cask of bile; He can dance with a shoe nail in his heel, And never a sign of his pain reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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