Word: daiquiri
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...markets. The whisky is promoted as "a bar in a bottle" and buyers are urged to try their favorite mixed drinks under a heady assortment of new names. Thus, using a base of Frost 8/80, a Bloody Mary becomes a Diamond Lil; a Manhattan, a Great White Hope; a Daiquiri, an Igloo; a Martini, a Moby Dick; and a Screwdriver, a Monkey Wrench. The new whisky, it seems, is versatile enough to masquerade as gin, vodka or even...
Curricular Daiquiri. Elsewhere in the book, X resourcefully solves many of democracy's thorniest problems. For example...
ACADEMIC PRESTIGE. This is flimsily supported, says X, by such misleading designations as "lower schools," "high schools" and "higher education." X would grant academic degrees at any level, and he would shake the curriculum as vigorously as a daiquiri. Hence, at the university level, students might study basket weaving and finger painting; kindergartens and elementary schools would offer courses in demography and experimental biology. No students would be failed, a strategy that "would relieve them of having to resort to the indignity of intimidating the faculty with guns and knives...
...tushenlco, 33, who says he's going to use the auto-rental slogan as the title for a short novel on the U.S. inspired by his recent six-week tour. "I am calling it We Try Harder, because Americans work so hard," confided Evgeny, draining his fourth daiquiri in a bar in Beirut. What's more, he continued, he hoped the book would bring him some crisp U.S. greenbacks because he was flat broke, "like a little baby in the street...
...China, they have no chop suey; in Italy, you have to hunt to find a pizza with mushrooms; in Wales, a Welsh rabbit is only a rabbit; in Turkey, there are no turkeys; in Daiquiri (Cuba), it is almost impossible to find a daiquiri; India ink is made in China or Japan; in Spain, there is no Spanish rice...