Word: likker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, when a cowpoke quaffed a "prairie pickup" ("straight formaldehyde with a black widder spider ridin' the olive"), his crepe whiskers fell off. Ad-libbed Actor Welles: "Mighty pow'ful stuff, that likker. Burns the whiskers right off'n a man's face...
...Scheduled for broadcast on an NBC hookup, it was heard no farther than Asheville's auditori um. Just after the A.F. of L. president had been introduced, someone snipped circuit wires in a basement spot only 20 feet from where the Asheville Chamber of Commerce was serving corn likker to the press...
...Turks would not move until the Russians told them to, when they realized how little practical support the British could give, they were grave. They gathered in coffee houses and drank thick Turkish coffee and sipped their ouzo, as colorless and full of kick as corn likker...