Word: crocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prosperous Vancouver Island logging operator, Seymour was never able to forget the buried rum. Last summer he impulsively flew to Europe, found the hedge just where he remembered it. It took half an hour's digging to unbury the crocks intact. Elated, Seymour headed for London, searched out old army buddies who polished off one of the two-gallon crocks. The other he took back to Canada, where Her Majesty's Canadian Customs Department heartlessly ruled that he was entitled to bring in one quart of liquor and not a nostalgic swig more. Seymour got himself licensed...