Word: jigger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bartenders were now instructed to use jigger glasses to measure the drink, instead of the "sense of gentlemanly hospitality," which had previously been their guide...
FAVORITE DRINK: Big Red Cowpuncher (6 ozs. Genesee beer, half-cup of fresh cream, jigger-full of tobacco juice, and a packet of unsweetened cherry Kool-Aid, with a twist...
Vardon and Ray, who were considered invincible, had been touring the States proselytizing the game, sponsored by The Times of London. Ouimet, who had caddied at TCC since he was 11, forced a playoff, hitting a jigger onto number 17 and making a must birdie putt...
...medical researchers at a Phoenix, Ariz., branch of the National Institutes of Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine have challenged that belief. Using 30 Indian and 30 white volunteers as test subjects, Drs. Lynn J. Bennion and Ting-Kai Li let each slowly down a 3-oz. jigger of 50% ethanol, the form of alcohol in liquor. After a lapse of 90 minutes to allow total absorption of the alcohol into the bloodstream, they began taking blood samples from the subjects once every 30 minutes over a three-hour period. The tests invariably showed that the rates...
...virtually all states, that influence is legally set at a blood concentration of .1% or more alcohol. A 150-lb. man can reach this level if he takes three one-jigger (11½ oz. per jigger) drinks within an hour...