Word: coolerator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labyrinthine complications of the script use birth control pills for comic fuel the way French farce uses bedrooms. Gerald Hardcastle (David Niven), an elegant British banker with a cool million and a cooler mistress (Irina Demick), decides that he wants out of his dreary twelve-year marriage. Knowing that his wife Prudence (Deborah Kerr) has hardly been faithful herself, he substitutes aspirin for her birth control pills in hopes that she'll become pregnant by her lover so he can sue for divorce. Meanwhile, the Hardcastle maid decides to yield to her boy friend's advances and swipes...
...tenth as strong as hashish. Marijuana is illegally imported into the U.S., mainly from Mexico, either loose or in the form of pressed bricks, called "keys" (for kilos), weighing 2.2 lbs. Connoisseurs strain out the coarse stalks before rolling it into cigarettes or packing it loosely into long-stemmed, cooler-smoking pipes. For $5, anyone almost anywhere can buy enough through his office boy or teen-age offspring to make six cigarettes...
Smith got out of the cooler in time for Barry's major promotion of the evening. Terrier defenseman Hinch planted his elbow in Bob Fredo's face and when Barry was nonplussed he used the tactic on three more Crimson skaters. Everyone in the full house saw a fight was brewing except the referees, and at 16:30 it exploded...
...decade ago, industrial uses provided almost no income for the nation's 500 water bottlers. Today, jet aircraft use purified water mixed with fuel in order to keep engines cooler during takeoffs; electric utilities use the stuff to wash insulators while the juice remains on-because the purity of the bath prevents dangerous sparking. Procter & Gamble uses millions of gallons for mouthwashes and similar items so that they will always taste the same. The builders of a new Inglewood, Calif., sports palace called the Forum fed their cement mixers exclusively with bottled water in order to provide a better...
...speech, with an ovation still ringing in his ears, Johnson recalled what the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn had once told him: "The Congress always extends a very warm welcome to the President-as he comes in." From now on, the welcome is likely to be a good deal cooler...