Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other perception of radiation is known in humans, but eight years ago, Hunt and his associates, Donald J. Kimeldorf and John Garcia, found that rats will shun sweetened water, one of their favorite liquids, if they are dosed with radiation while they try to drink. This hardly proved that rats can sense radiation directly. Quite possibly they had been made slightly sick, associated their malaise with the sweetened water. But the hint seemed worth following...
...volt auto or boat batteries, 2) standard no-volt house current, 3) bottled gas. The Escort Mark II refrigerator, made by the Selectra Corp., Buffalo, weighs less than 30 Ibs., takes up little more room than a suitcase, keeps up to 35 Ibs. of food and drink chilled on even the longest trips. Price...
...bisque was omitted for fear that clerks and junior executives would slop it all over the 1,200 guests. Even Bossman Conrad (Be My Guest) Hilton, 74. saw emergency service. During a party on the 18th-floor Starlight Roof, the hustling hosteler slipped behind the bar to mix a drink for New Mexico Governor Edwin Mechem. But it was not a real test. All Mechem wanted was bourbon and water...
...plaintive harmonica, repeated by strings, hummed and then sung by the chorus, finally resolved with the harmonica again. Says Mancini: "It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote the song in half an hour...
...exhausted postwar world swallowed Spengler's gloomy brew as a confirming, almost a soothing draught. What matter if the drink were hemlock? At least the worst was known. The Decline of the West, despite its Germanic prolixities, sold more than 100,000 copies in the first eight years, mostly in Germany. Spengler was the talk of every campus...