Word: grog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Embrace the latin grog with temperance. It's smooth but virile...
...Amethyst neared her Royal Navy berth did it become plain that she was a shelled cripple. No sooner was she tied up than her whole crew was relieved, to become the week-long guests of the Fleet Club. From England, King George personally ordered an extra round of grog for all hands with the time-honored phrase: "Splice the main brace...
...winds had howled about the high peaks of the French Alps, whipping the mountain snows into white fury, keeping skiers and tourists at home. In the valley below, one day last fortnight, the rival guides of fashionable Chamonix and humbler St. Gervais gathered as usual to down their morning grog and gripe about the weather. High over their heads, the pilot of an Air India...
...Mountain Mouse. By then the fog had lifted, leaving the air crystal clear. Villagers below could now see tiny lights still moving up and up along the mountain. Lacking radios and fortified with grog, the St. Gervais party was pushing on. They spent the night in a refuge hut. Next morning at 6 they started climbing again. One of the climbers froze his foot and went back under protest. "By noon," said Viallet later, "we had dug through snow up to our chests across the corridor of avalanches . . . We drank grog. That's very important on the mountain...
...press. After that, 20 cops in uniform and plain clothes joined the newsmen in an eight-hour vigil outside the building. Excited Swiss who lived across from the clinic fed the newsmen hot tea. The manager of the Lausanne-Palace Hotel arrived with a milk can full of hot grog...