Word: likker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hashish in the Middle East, bhang or ganja in India, ma in China, maconha or djama in South America, pot, grass, boo, maryjane and tea in the U.S., it is ubiquitous and easily grown, can be smoked in "joints" (cigarettes), baked into cookies or brewed in tea ("pot likker...
...year is 1867. With winter due, the city of Denver has been hit by a liquor shortage. In ten days the saloons will be bone dry unless a wagon train can get through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on a collision course with a band of footsore Denver vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields...
...strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), likker-lovin' youth, York was a Saturday night hell-raiser around Tennessee's tiny Cumberland Mountains towns-and a phenomenal shot with his long-barreled rifle. Yet at the mere sight of a church-going girl, Gracie Williams, whom he wanted to marry, he put away his jug, joined the Possum Trot Church choir, turned piously religious. Above all, he took to heart the Sixth Commandment: THOU SHALT NOT KILL...
...quintessential nature of Southernness. "Lonesomeness" is one explanation. "The lie that is the truth of the self" is another more portentous reflection. Whatever it is, those who feel it most are inclined to go off and hole up with muskrat skinners in the swamp drink a jug of likker and just weep into the warm...
...that would have embarrassed Edgar Guest. Breakfast Club is the salt of the air. The visiting audience is full of people who listen to McNeill every day without fail, and they feel no restraint about participating. One woman walked up to him during a show recently and hefted a likker pot toward him, drawling: "Ah brought you a small jug of corn from Alabama." "We got our own corn on this show," said...