Word: cocktailing
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...been a state within a state. The home of half of South Viet Nam's 1,000,000 Chinese, and long administered by five semiautonomous Chinese "communities," Cholon was both the Wall Street and the Broadway of Viet Nam. At night its jampacked streets offered visitors a heady cocktail compounded of neon lights, savory smells and cabaret music...
...anonymous Coop salesgirl says that last Christmas' most popular gift, cocktail sets, are being outsold by smoked glassware and electric frypans...
...Refined. Working against strong competition, the bootlegger keeps his customers happy by offering speedy delivery, discounts, occasional gifts to steady customers, and a flow of such promotional material as cocktail-recipe booklets. In return, he may clear $130,000 a year. His pint pitchers may make as much as $100 a week, must follow rigid rules: e.g., act refined when you enter good homes, drive carefully to avoid a traffic ticket and possible search, surrender peaceably if you're stopped...
...Congress, surpassing the record of North Carolina's late Democratic Representative Robert ("Muley") Doughton, whose term ended in 1953 when Doughton was 89 years 56½ days. Then, thanking lots of walking and other exercise for his longevity, Eldest Statesman Green, a bachelor who drinks an occasional cocktail and smokes not even cornsilk, rushed to West Germany and a banquet honoring him as the oldest living ex-student of the University of Bonn...
...Recalling the diagnosis by the psychiatrist in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party: "Half of the harm that is done in this world/Is due to people who want to feel important...