Word: ginning
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...cooking kook who cares more for his belly than he does for Britain-the sort of waiter baiter who considers himself a gourmet because he speaks menu French and probably reads the food page in Playboy. And of course he is a martini crank ("vodka not gin, shaken not stirred"), a tailor's dummy (Benson, Perry and Whitley, 9 Cork Street, London W.1), and a blood sportsman who would rather hunt quail (Eunice Gay son) than Red birds...
...escorting frigate had been loaded with some $10,000 worth of bounty bought in duty-free ports. Main source was Singapore, where De Mel's bluejackets had joyously laid in 100 cases of Grant's Scotch, 25 cases of other brands of whisky, plus cases of rum, gin, brandy, champagne and beer, intended for disposal back home. Investigators added that the hot cargo also included crated refrigerators, hi-fi sets, transistor radios, furniture, rare Hong Kong vases and gold bangles-most, unfortunately, confiscated by Ceylon authorities after the fleet dropped anchor upon its return...
...include soup and dessert in a single paper-and-foil container. Dow Chemical has developed a packet made of plastic, paper and foil that holds individual portions of butter. But it was left to Allied Chemical to come up with a plastic container shaped like a martini glass. Inside: gin and vermouth...
...farmers save $20 per acre compared with the stiffer cost of chemical weeding. The only drawback to the system is that the geese, grown fat from their weed-gorging, occasionally trample down the young cotton. But after their chores are done, and the cotton is safely off to the gin, the geese themselves can always be peddled to help pay for the loss...
...market (most popular: Cutty Sark and J & B, two of the lightest blends), and light Canadian blends now account for two of the three biggest U.S. sellers (Seagrams' imported V.O. and Hiram Walker's Canadian Club). The market share of such high-spirited "white goods" as gin and vodka has jumped from 9% to 19% since...