Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West, judges rode the circuit on horseback with two indispensable tools of justice in their saddlebags: a copy of Blackstone's Commentaries and a flask of whisky. Today Judge Robert Moran, 52, travels the five counties of Nebraska's 16th judicial district in a battered 1972 Plymouth with 140,000 miles on it (his 1960 model died at 240,000). His tools are two loose-leaf binders with summaries of his case docket and a black bag stuffed with lawyer's briefs. His territory is his state's western panhandle. It is sparse ranch and farm...
Time and again the World Health Organization has declared smallpox extinct, only to have the ancient scourge reappear like a genie from a virologist's flask. Although the last known case of smallpox occurred in Somalia last October, the disease has not died out. An Englishwoman working at the University of Birmingham Medical School contracted it, presumably from virus escaping from a lab on a floor below. Before the case was diagnosed, a co-worker flew off to North Dakota on a holiday, thereby extending the smallpox alert...
...pains, Cowley recalls, "I was . . . excoriated in The Daily Worker and caricatured in The New Masses (as a soldier with a whisky flask in his hip pocket and a chamberpot on his head, offering a fascist salute to J.P. Morgan...
...wino and muscatel went flying out the door. The other wino was the more genteel type--and she kept me company from D.C. to New York last Christmas. She was a sweet old Southern lady--74 years old, she kept telling me--with a habit of pulling on a flask of "Irish Rose" wine every five minutes. By the time we hit Baltimore she was polluted and getting rancher every minute. Having had enough of this Blanche DuBois-Belle Reve trip, I pretended to go to sleep, but this wasn't good enough for her. She kept whacking...
Still, there is one thing Cambridge lacks. "I used to live in Rome, and we drank mineral water all the time," Gowing said. "You can't get it here, so I drink this stuff, he said, flourishing a flask of Perrier water. "I have to pay a dollar for it at Cardullo's--that's way too expensive...