Word: dew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco's Buena Vista bar alone, consumption of Irish whisky leaped from two cases a year to 1,000 cases, an average of 700 Irish coffees a day. Visitors from some 40-odd cities where Delaplane's column runs turned up in droves to sample the magic dew. The consumption of Irish coffee has become so great that exports of Irish whisky to the U.S. increased 40% last year, to 10,000 cases. In Manhattan, bistros from Pat Moriarty's Chop House (price: 85?) to the 21 Club (price: $1.75) have begun ladling out Irish coffee...
Since 1791, when the U.S. imposed the first tax on whisky, moonshiners have plied their intermittent trade in Dixie's piney woods. They still make a lively dew. At times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...
...shelves of state liquor stores there has appeared a civilized but untamed 100-proof corn liquor respectably labeled"White Lightning -Clear as the Mountain Dew" and respectably distilled on order by a subsidiary of the Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. in Louisville. The North Carolina Board of Alcoholic Control had decided that it would stop trying to wean moonshine guzzlers, and would offer them a better product...
...morning last week a short, gnomelike figure dressed in a cream-colored coat, grey flannels and sneakers darted through the dew-drenched shrubbery of Paris' Bois de Boulogne. He paused to stare reflectively at a lush hydrangea bush, then hurried on to pick up a dead limb, a handful of dead leaves and a piece of old oak bark. To startled park gardeners an official explained: "That gentleman is a famous Japanese flower arranger, Monsieur Sofu...
...perspective, Cadart goes into more detail about their anatomy and their slippery lives. As mollusks risen from the sea and hardly adapted to the land, they are dependent on humidity. They prefer to travel and graze only when light rain is falling or when the ground is wet with dew. The rest of the time they sleep safely shut in their shells, sometimes sealed into them with a membrane of dried mucus. Their senses of touch and smell are acute, but the little eyes on the ends of their tentacles are not efficient; they must be moved very close...