Word: drys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the churches, which once stood resolutely with the drys, are gradually reversing their position. The National Council of the Churches of Christ has joined sociologists and doctors in urging that the legal drinking age-21 in most states-be dropped to 18, on the grounds that it is unrealistic and in any event unenforceable. Publications of the Methodists, who long practiced or avowed total abstinence, now freely discuss such subjects as appropriate and inappropriate drinking-and appropriate and inappropriate abstinence. Welcoming 1968 with more drinking but less drunkenness, the U.S. stands established as a moderate drinking society, in which...
...Mississippi, as the cheerful saying goes, "the drys have their law, the wets have their whisky and the state gets its taxes." Though they have the only statewide prohibition statute in the U.S., Mississippians have no trouble getting a drink in 59 of 82 counties. Bootleggers support the 58-year-old law because they can make a greater profit on liquor when it is illegal. Drinkers also generally approve of the dichotomy, although whisky smuggled from neighboring states costs more than anywhere else in the Southeast...
Since whisky is a high-proof issue in Mississippi, Johnson did not ask the legislators-who do their drinking in "private clubs" in Jackson-to repeal the law on their own. Instead, he asked them to authorize a referendum by March 15. Drys won the last such vote, in 1952, by 140,681 votes to 80,222. If repeal should fail this time, warned the Governor, he would be forced to "dry up this state like the Sahara...
...fibers and eventually to muscles, so that thought is translated into action. Some research ers have concentrated on the chemical aspects of the mechanism, and, because they work with aqueous solutions, they are known in their own esoteric circle as "wets." Those who work with electrical circuitry are the "drys." Neither group has yet been able to offer a complete explanation of nerve-impulse transmission, though each seems to have dug out part of the truth...
Eleven times cloture votes have been taken against Southerners filibustering against civil rights; eleven times the votes have failed. Until last week, cloture had not been imposed since 1927, when Drys gagged a filibuster by Wets against a bill to beef up Prohibition enforcement...