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Word: ginning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yamaguchi's faith proved well founded. Army engineers attempted to control the lava by exploding water bombs designed to cool the molten rock and dam its flow, but found their efforts ineffective. Hawaiians tried more traditional means. Flying over the crater, they sacrificed three bottles of gin to the angry goddess. Last week Kilauea gave a final mighty burp and dozed off. The lava flow topped and began to cool into black rock -only some 400 yds. from Kalapana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Angry Goddess On a Rampage | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...female monkey 3 gin fizzes and she ran up and down a rope ladder, and the Clever girl was christened by a Russian princess I should like to have violated and there were strawberry gin fizzes and drunken dancing and I was fortunate to get home...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Sherry and Schopenhauer | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...along with the advertising motif, plus $20 a month. Aimed initially at college kids, the campaign has enlisted doctors, professors, lawyers, businessmen and bankers. Themes have included a mustachioed, sombreroed Mexican against an orange background (Ole Tequila), a red baron flying high in a blue sky (Seagram's Gin) and a hearts-and-cupids background emblazoned HOW'S YOUR LOVE LIFE? (Ultra-Brite toothpaste). Owners of Lincolns and Cadillacs have tried to enroll their cars, but to no avail. This form of beetlemania is for Volkses only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Odds and Trends | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...city seem etched in ancient stone and rubbed with coal dust. Laidlaw runs his investigation from a fading hotel: "The architecture was Victorian and very dirty. It had been cunningly equipped with curlicues and excrescences, the chief effect of which was to make it an enormous gin for drifting soot and aerial muck. It stood now half-devoured by its catch, weighted with years of Glasgow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Criminal Outrage | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...some of us the change in seasons is signalled more subtly. Vodka-bitter lemons give way to gin-and-tonics; club soda is replaced by quinine water. Below is a highly arbitrary listing of some local establishments specializing in liquid cuisine...

Author: By George Gershwin, | Title: Consumer's guide to the Square | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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