Word: jiggering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party may adjourn to the gaudy strip of nightclubs outside the base. Or there is always the officers' club, where one of the favorite drinks is a MIG-21, a paralyzing concoction consisting of three jiggers of Scotch and one jigger of Drambuie on the rocks. Some base areas have their own bowling alleys, miniature-golf courses and radio stations that broadcast American pop music. Between their briefings, missions and postflight critiques, however, many pilots are often too busy or too tired to care much about recreation. The schedule is so hectic, in fact, that the Ubon officers...
...time, she was breaking up with her lover of six years, Actor Gerald O'Loughlin, and falling in love with a prominent (and married) star. Second, she "was sick of Any Wednesday before it even opened." One of the stunts she had learned from Robards was to jigger with a script during a run. In Any Wednesday, she improvised to an indulgent and irresponsible extreme...
...concern is our hard-drinking, draft-dodging college youth. I want to assure them that they are doing their part sipping Bourbon while the soldiers do the fighting. After all, each drink pays for another bullet. And we'll underscore their contribution by urging them to drink by the jigger and "Have a shot...
Because airlines needed a medium-haul plane that could keep on earning after prime daytime passenger hours, United helped Boeing jigger its tri-jet 727 to set the entire cabin area on eleven quickly detachable pallets that can be moved over small rails and rollers in the plane's floor. To convert the 96-passenger plane for cargo service, workmen roll the pallets out of the cargo hatch on to a van, fold up the hat racks, then roll in 20 tons of cargo on eight pallets from another van. Total time: 30 minutes. In all, eleven...
...flashes into steam. As it passes through a series of similar chambers, even more fresh water is steamed off until, in the more efficient operations, an average of 3½ gallons of sea water is turned into a gallon of fresh. So pure is the result that sometimes a jigger of such contaminants as magnesium salts is tossed back in to eliminate the bland, distilled taste...