Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fastest-sharpening wits in television belong to dark, disheveled Elaine May and blond, carefully tailored Mike Nichols, both 26, whose dry dialogues are as lethal as cold gin...
...only they can take his mind off his tax forms and put it on Mariette's still flawless figure. Ma starts fattening up Cedric with goodies from the "frige." Pop rechristens the tax man "Charlie," and plies him with a Rolls-Royce ("half vermouth, quarter whisky, quarter gin, dash of orange bitters") followed by a Chauffeur ("one-third vermouth, one-third whisky, one-third gin, dash of Angostura"). At first day's end. a cocktail-shaken Charlie, decked in Mariette's pajamas, goes to sleep on the billiard table while cooing sweet nothings to the billiard ball...
...boatman. I bought a backyard-built, potbellied boat called the Bonita in Bay Head, N.J., put my mother, father and girl friend on board, and headed for Miami. The girl got off in Maryland, but we made it to Miami." In those days "the water in the bay was gin-clear, and you could stand on the bank and catch twice your weight in fish...
...killing Owner Blair, wounding Kenney and Wilson. Giving up the thought of robbery, the boys fled. David ran home, after firing his gun aimlessly in the street, and was found by police as he sat on his grandmother's lap, crying. Robert hid in an abandoned cotton gin, six blocks from the grocery. The police got him out by dropping tear gas into the building...
Planters and merchants sipping pink gin on hotel verandas tend to grouse about federation: "It's all very well for the Colonial Office to wash its hands of these islands, but they're not leaving any protection for people of substance." The voters, too, proved unenthusiastic; only about a third cast ballots last week. But Britain is leaving the invaluable tradition of democracy and justice, and it will also subsidize the federation for a while. The next steps-inevitable because the Colonial Office wills it-will be slow withdrawals of Lord Hailes's power, followed eventually...