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Word: gins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most plane populations, but we were not bizarre. As Newark fell away behind us like a beer can thrown out of a car window, we rediscovered each other ("Hey, there's Noam!" "The punk kids made it!") and pondered whether, at a price, to order coffee, tea or gin. Back at North Terminal, only a grubby memory now, veteran squatters were getting comfortable in front of the stand-by counter, and newcomers were wondering how they would live through the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: People Expressing Themselves | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...memory of earlier Fourths of July, with their pop-bottle rockets and Black Cat firecrackers, is apt to be a lot more cheerful than the real thing. Still, viewed from an often difficult present, it seems that not many years ago, an ear of sweet corn and a gin fizz were enough to turn Independence Day into pure bliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somber Prelude to the Fourth | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...Auburn St) Known to everyone as the Pro, this emporium offers Bud as well as other domestics for $13.40 a case and Heinken at $20 per Industrial cans go at 65c and61.05 respectively The pro sells a liter of Gorden's Vodka at 58.25 and a fifth of Beeteater Gin at $11. It is open during the summer from 10 a.m-7 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday and 10 a.m. 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Before the Drinks . . . After the Show | 7/1/1983 | See Source »

Since it's summer you shouldn't be reading anything more ambitious than the latest Judith Krantz But if you are enrolled to take classes while any reasonable human being is discovering the untold joys of a cold gin and tonic after a game of tennis, then your perverse intellectual streak (authentic of otherwise) will probably drive you into Cambridge's many bookstores. If so, you will not be disappointed because browsing is a local specialty and Square bookshops cater to the avid reader with welcoming stacks and close to round the clock hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking for Mr. Goodbook | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

Unlike Sir Francis Chichester, the late great British circumnavigator who spliced the main brace with gin, rum, whisky, brandy, wine and beer, Jeantot consumed no liquor during the trip; through heavy spray and parching sun, however, he remained a heavy smoker of unfiltered Gauloises. Bachelor Philippe is no gourmet, preparing three shipboard meals a day from one can each of vegetables, meat and dessert, heated on his butane stove and forked out of the can directly to save dishwashing. Jeantot's only hedonistic indulgence was a cassette player, with which he regaled himself with favorites that ranged from Pink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Jeantot, Superstar of the Sea | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

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