Word: gins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...created the giant 474-ft. baseball Scoreboard in Houston's Astrodome, whose animated display when the Houston Astros hit one of their rare homers includes steers with the U.S. and Texas flags waving from their horns. In New York an 80-ft. illuminated bottle will soon pour neon gin high above Times Square...
...time." In between these sessions, he sometimes watches television with Corrie, easing his busy brain with such shows as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart! Another relaxing habit, imported from Holland like the Schmidts, is an occasional belt or two of volatile Dutch Bols gin...
...hell run." Attracted by Zambian government offers of up to $450 per trip, they travel night and day, seldom stopping to sleep. They fortify themselves against danger with python-skin juju charms, but their defense against the heat is more practical: bags of water laced with gin...
...nights after his speech. Along with other celebrators, the Governor dropped in on a Jackson country club for a nightcap only to find that sheriff's deputies had got there first, smashed the liquor-cabinet door with a sledge hammer, and carted off all the whisky, wine and gin to the Hinds County Courthouse. "Paul, can't you do something about this?" a lady in mink beseeched Johnson. "I made my stand, I took my chance," the Governor responded, dryly...
...third, he says, they cannot tell bourbon from Canadian rye, and after the fourth they cannot distinguish bourbon from Scotch. After the fifth, presumably, they couldn't care less. Bishop also adds a note on something that many a hard-pressed host has already discovered: that switching gin and vodka martinis in the shank of any evening is as easy as it is unsporting...