Word: ginning
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...days, a swizzle stick was aimed at a cherry or an olive and logically used to stir a gin and tonic. But in trendy bars today, as the price of some drinks hovers around five bucks, plastic swizzlers are almost as elaborate as the frozen daiquiris and blue margaritas they garnish. In Los Angeles, New York and Miami, the new adornments come shaped as inch-wide blue whales, 4-in.-long marlins or, even better, mermaids, pink elephants, giraffes, lizards and dinosaurs -- all to be fondled, chewed and traded...
...little list, starting with Christopher Columbus, whom he evokes as a gold-hungry conquistador and an impatient actor on the set of a television mini-series (" 'When will this all end?!' grumbled Columbus, feeling his face to see if his gray beard had come unglued. 'Somebody, bring me a gin and tonic...
...deference. He practiced daily at the track, while the other celebrities pursued their usual interests. Plimpton arrived in Florida only hours before Thursday's afternoon press conference. He sat at the bar -- a tall, gangly man, who resembles a preppy, perpetually disoriented tropical bird -- and nursed a gin and tonic while moaning that he had had only a few hours sleep...
...collection of banks and investment houses known as the City of London is also embroiled in a shocking stock-trading scandal. Investigators are still probing deeply into allegations of wrongdoing surrounding the $4 billion takeover last year of Distillers, the British manufacturer of Johnnie Walker Scotch and Gordon's gin, by Guinness, the Anglo-Irish brewer and distiller. The sensational affair has already ruined the careers of some of Britain's best-known businessmen, and may bring regulatory retaliation on the City...
...Last March the E.C. effectively cut off some $400 million in U.S. grain exports to Spain after that country entered the Community. Unless adequate compensation was provided, the U.S. said, it would impose crippling 200% duties at 12:01 a.m. last Friday on such Community exports as British gin, French cognac and Dutch cheese. Finally, about four hours before the deadline last week, a settlement was reached and the shoot-out was called...