Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automation. Typical of the great change are the Bidart brothers, John, 41, and Frank, 49, who started out in 1932 with 300 acres near Bakersfield, Calif., a borrowed tractor and four mules. Now they farm 5,600 acres of prime cotton land by machine. They have a cotton gin, 14 cotton pickers (costing $11,000 apiece), 24 tractors and eight trucks all equipped with two-way radios. Says John Bidart who also owns half-interest in a $7,000 plane used to spray the cotton: We couldn't get along without our radio communication We couldn't replace...
...Blend three dashes Benedictine, three dashes grenadine, one-third orange juice, two-thirds dry gin. Stir well in ice, strain, serve in tin cup and stay away from organ-grinders...
...also made himself a first-rate draftsman and a master of watercolor. Thus equipped, he took to wandering like a self-propelled vacuum cleaner into ugly corners of the everyday world, sucking up sordid impressions to belch out as nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection...
...Japanese capital, set up shop in backrooms above the Kyo-bunkwan bookstore and published its pony-size, adless Far Eastern edition. Last week some 400 Japanese and foreigners came to see our new quarters, and to sip, among other drinks, such an inscrutable concoction as the "Monkey Gland" (gin, orange juice, D.O.M. and grenadine...
...white hero is Peter McKenzie, a hulking young safari leader who can stalk a kudu, sight a Mannlicher-Schoenauer and get shikkered on gin with the best big-game hunters. The sinister shadow on his life is his childhood playmate, the black Kimani. who becomes a Mau Mau at bestial oath-taking ceremonies in a mountain hideout and butchers Peter's family in sanguinary scenes of the kind that Author Ruark insists upon describing over and over again in detail...