Word: likker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will do, of course, but that she must join forces with Rooster in order to help avenge her father's death. The pair quarrel along a meandering trail. She tries to reform him or at least get him to take a bath and ease up on the corn likker. He grouses about the talky ways into which her moral fervor leads her. In the end, needless to say, mutual respect bordering on romantic attachment develops between them...
...runaway price of staples, a source of anguish to housewives and politicians, has spelled disaster to a considerably less vocal segment of U.S. society: the Southern moonshiner. All the essential ingredients of corn likker have skyrocketed: sugar (up 300% in a year), grain and yeast, as well as the copper used for piping and kettles and the plastic jugs in which illicit hooch is transported and sold. A gallon of moonshine that used to sell for $1 now goes for $6 or more. As a result, the tide of "white whisky" that used to flow from Appalachian hills and hollers...
...gallons of 'shine (worth up to $8,000 untaxed) in Dawsonville, Ga.-their biggest local haul in four years. However, connoisseurs of corn complain that mass-production methods result in a relatively tasteless brew (which also tends to lack the dead rats and flies that spiced old-time likker). White lightning may yet find its uses. Once, when an agent cleaned off his fingerprinting machine with some confiscated corn, he found that it dissolved ink much faster than commercial solvents. Lightning fast...
...years old now," the moonshiner said as he scratched a hound's ear. "Lived on this knob all my life." His mother still lives there too, but his father died a heroic moonshiner's death in 1951. "My daddy made his own likker," he explained, "and died at 64 on a big drunk. Stayed drunk for 13 days on his own bottles; stuff was so strong must've burned his insides...
...quietly notes: "All the old generation has just about died out, and the young pull out. Maybe they work timber for a time, or maybe they mine. But them that can, goes." When they go, they leave behind the last of the silent, durable old men who make corn likker by the light of the moon...