Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...runs a taut ship indeed. In his presence even his wife and senior chiefs must squat on the floor. Those who drink with him must first get down on one knee and touch the floor twice with the palms of their hands, and even his closest courtiers may not speak to him unless they fall to their knees; all who pass in front of him must crouch low and snap their fingers repeatedly as a safeguard against Mwata Yambo's possible displeasure...
Ghoulardi plays bongo drums on human skulls, and he hits fungos with shrunken heads; but mainly he just plays the nut clown. He shows ads that say, "Drink Ghoulaid," and he says he likes to read The Tragedy of Ghoulius Caesar. From college he graduated magna ghoul laude. Perhaps because he sees himself as another Ghoul Brynner, he has a ghoult complex. His favorite ballplayer is Ghoul Hodges. This goes on until adults can justifiably despair of teendom as a world they never made...
Whatever it is that makes people drink, it makes them drink more in the capital of the U.S. According to a survey put together by the Center of Alcohol Studies at New Jersey's Rutgers University, the average adult resident of Washington gulped, sipped or chugalugged 8.77 gallons of hard liquor last year. No state even came close to that record. The 1962 rankings by state of gallons* drunk per adult (defined as 15 years and over...
...another 9% sales tax when the liquor is sold. Last year Mississippi took in $3,302,385 in taxes on more than a million gallons of liquor imported and sold within state borders. But there is no "official" gallonage consumption figure, because, according to state law, Mississippians do not drink...
...buzz blots out the radio broadcasts from Miami. Even that wonderful old mirror over the bar at Ernest Hemingway's famous hangout La Floridita has been taken down. In its place is one of those sweaty murals of militant struggle, which is enough to drive a person from drink...