Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pifer puts it this way: "When morning comes with the soldiery abed and tangled in a heap, the bathtub gin drained, leaving only a rosy residue of secretaries in half-slips, when the muddy colonel in the geranium bush is dragged indoors by dawn's first Negro to sleep it off in the vestibule under a smashed grandfather clock, when first brightness crashes through ripped drapes into the dehydrated eyes of snockered politicos, lobbyists in underpants, Pentagon sources and the secret police, when the hands that guide our collective destiny reach to kill the screams of the alarm clock...
...campaign's closing week, the Harris poll showed Labor's winning mar gin declining from 7% to 2%, but the Gallup and Marplan polls both showed a continued rise in Labor's edge. Only one sampling, which was conducted by the Opinion Research Center poll, predicted a Tory victory ? but only by a bare margin of 1%. Heath shrugged off all the surveys, insisting that the To ries would win. "The only poll that counts is the one on June 18," he said...
...reject the youih culture categorically. Most of us, however, occupy the unhappy position of being undecided: we want to enjoy, but deep down in our pre-Spock psyches, we feel we shouldn't. We puff marijuana at parties when we would be happier with Scotch or gin; we don bell-bottoms when we would rather be in tweeds; we jump into affairs when we would rather be at home in bed-asleep. The visible result often is a compromise: the staid Wall Street lawyer, in vest, rep tie and cuffed trousers in the daytime, who turns Bloomingdale hippie...
...private laboratories; some do several hundred urinalyses a day, at $4.50 each. Even these tests are not foolproof. If a specimen shows a hint of quinine, which is often used to cut heroin, the applicant can be refused -but he could have picked it up simply by drinking a gin and tonic, which also contains quinine. Another drawback is that the tests cannot detect heavy users of marijuana because it leaves no noticeable after-trace...
...last year reached 375 million gallons. In the past twelve years, however, bourbon's share of the market has declined from 30% to 23%, and blended whisky has gone down from 33% to 21%. Meanwhile, the market share held by Scotch has risen from 7.6% to 12.5%. Gin's share increased from 9% to 10% and vodka's from...