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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Making Moonshine in Kentucky | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...high sheriff, I put the ax to at least 300 stills, but I never did his, he bein' my kin. One time he and his old woman had a fallin' out, and she come down to get a warrant. See, he gets to drinkin' his own likker and comes home and beats on her, and she gets all hot and comes down and tells the law where he's got his still hid. So I said I'd go get him, but I never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Making Moonshine in Kentucky | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dry Spell Out West | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: One Day's Work | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

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