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Word: grog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jefferson City. Finally, with the U.S. Attorney in Kansas City acting as mediator, the Navy and the state compromised: when the Missouri is at sea, all the silver is hers. But when she is in home port, the Navy will make the punch bowl available to the state. Grog all around, mates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy: Battle of the Punch Bowl | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...such wanton abandon were once again prohibited, Epps says, "it might improve people's GPAs." Of course, he adds, colonial Harvardians didn't always heed these rules. "During those days people did the most awful things in their rooms, like drinking grog and smoking things out of far-eastern pipes...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Wear Thy Cloake, and Cut Thy Hair Go Ye Not to Harvard Square | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

...Grog Gizzi had just quarterbacked the Harvard football team to a 28-26 victory over Princeton: to call him the man of the hour would be an understatement...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Yes, Frank, He Can Pass | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...seemed aloof and distracted as he moved through the shoals and eddies of café society, it may have been because he was, at heart, a maker of magazines. He pioneered foreign editions (the British, French and German versions of Vogue, known round the office as Brogue, Frog and Grog), introduced color photography and invented the "bleed" (borderless) page. He spent his idle hours analyzing advertising and circulation figures. Nast once confessed: "I am merely a glorified bookkeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookkeeper | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

Pudding officials are planning a capital fund drive and organizing a series of parties and "Grog and Grill" nights to help raise revenue. They are also considering a number of other long-term solutions...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Hasty Pudding Faces Fiscal Difficulties Owes Over $150,000 in Taxes, Debts | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

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