Word: liqueurs
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...stationmaster was so right. Last week, before a Bavarian judge, Oskar and his fireman admitted that before boarding D-961 they had each downed five pints of strong Austrian beer and three Stamperln of liqueur. When the judge asked how big a Stamperl is, Oskar sheepishly pulled a liqueur glass from his pocket. For their wild night, the injuries to eleven of the 720 passengers, and the damages to six railway cars, the judge gave Oskar 18 months in prison and his fireman a year...
...found it useful in psychoneuroses, generally rated as the milder forms of emotional disturbance (TIME, June 28, 1954). In Manhattan, Psychiatrist Harold A. Abramson of the Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory has developed a technique of serving dinner to a group of subjects, topping off the meal with a liqueur glass containing 40 micrograms of LSD. Instead of upsetting the subjects, it often helps them to recall and relive-in each other's presence-experiences and emotions of childhood that previously had been too painful to face...
...column, a new dish is seldom simply "good"; instead, when it was put before her, "a happy little moan escaped the lips." She can embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
...imports Cheddar cheese from his district (New York's new 37th-the Binghamton area) and passes it around on the Hill. California's Representative Leroy Johnson keeps him supplied with Bing cherries, which Cole soaks for a year in bourbon to produce his own excellent cherry liqueur...
...sure that his fellow dons got their money's worth-and no more-he invented a series of gauges by which to measure their drinks. All a man had to do was to hold a Dodgson gauge up to his glass and say "When" as the wine or liqueur reached a certain mark. Since liqueur prices varied, there were gauges for everything from green chartreuse to dry curaçao, with a special scale and price list for each...