Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American diplomats are decidedly intemperate, holds Scharrfenberg. Cocktails consumed by State Department officials over a nine-year span amounted to 122,000,000. "You'd be surprised at what the expense accounts show," he added. "The gin bill alone came...
...tropical climes, an indispensable rejuvenator to hard-working British colonials is gin & tonic. The tonic has always meant Schweppes, a bitter, effervescent quinine water supposed to ward off malaria & malaise. Last week Schweppes took steps to colonize the U.S. It made a deal with Pepsi-Cola Co. giving Pepsi sole rights to bottle Schweppes in North America, and Schweppes will buy Pepsi's plants in England. Within a few months, Schweppes hopes to ship its concentrate to the U.S., cut its price from 40? to about 15? for a 10-oz. bottle, and be selling as much quinine water...
...mind seems almost as wiry as her body. "There isn't a crossword puzzle I can't finish in half an hour," Babe admits modestly. She likes to play gin rummy but is too good at it to get many opponents. The once lonely, homely tomboy is now a social success; she is an extremely graceful ballroom dancer and the life of almost any party, doing imitations of herself as a child singing I Get the Blues When It Rains, or hauling out a harmonica and rocking into a hillbilly air. Babe once banked $3,500 for taking...
...committee also upbraided the publishers of pocket books for putting out such "obscene" books as Marijuana Girl (Chapter II: how to "sniff the stuff"), Virgie Goodbye, Gin Wedding, Love-Hungry Doctor, Private Life of a Street Girl, She Made It Pay. Pocket-size reprints, the committee said, "originally started out as cheap reprints of standard works, have largely degenerated into a medium for the dissemination of artful appeals to sensuality, immorality, filth, perversion and degeneracy...
...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists). Director John Huston's Techni-colored version of C. S. Forester's novel about a prissy spinster and a gin-swilling skipper; with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...