Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the Tufts game, a slightly inebriated fan reportedly turned on a boy who had been blowing a horn into his ear and clubbed him with his flask...
...Station 3, an imposing desert installation surrounded by barbed wire and watchdogs and spoken of in whispers as "the most secret chemical-warfare establishment in this hemisphere." The chief security officer has been murdered. Dr. Baxter is missing. Dr. Oster is a marked man. Worst of all, some crucial flasks have been pilfered from E Lab. Several contain enough botulinus toxin to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles. One flask, warns Research Scientist Hoffman (Richard Basehart) is brimful of the "satan bug," a biological doomsday weapon that can launch death on a global scale. In this unpersuasive...
...second week of spring and summer showings, Parisian haute couture managed to sashay back to the hip-flask era, blast off into far-outer space, and keep fashion pundits' necks swiveling as if they were covering an inter-aeon Davis Cup match...
...flask was passed by Captain Edward Molyneux, making his return to fashion at 71, after 15 years devoted to painting. His collection evoked memories of the days when Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence and the Duchess of Kent-all faithful Molyneux clients-were Everyman's symbols of feminine elegance...
Partisans of the late Ernest Hemingway charged furiously that her 1950 profile cut him to ribbons. From it, they said, emerged the picture of a man who swilled from a pocket flask while touring art galleries, and who talked baby talk ("Was fun for country boy like me"). But if Hemingway had been sliced, he did not bleed noticeably. Permitted a prepublication look at the article, he approved it with one minor deletion. And when the critics began to scream, he sent Miss Ross a friendly note: "About our old piece-the hell with them...