Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Facts on liquor released last week confirmed a melancholy suspicion held by most drinkers: the supply is really drying...
Calling for a national crusade among youth, Father John W. Keogh, re-elected president of the Union, urged that families should not serve liquor at home, that banquets should not include it on the menu. Said he: "Total abstinence should begin with youth." In the Philadelphia Archdiocese (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Illinois are Union strongholds), last year 12,684 boys and girls in high schools, colleges, seminaries had signed the pledge...
...Franciscans, later got a parish in poverty-ridden Cork. Unlike most priests of his time, Father Mathew gladly worked with Protestants ("We should bear with each other as God bears with us all"). On one civic committee he sat with a Quaker, William Martin. When ever the evils of liquor were discussed Quaker Martin would say: "Ah, Theobald Mathew, if thou wouldst take the matter up." One day Father Mathew swore off whisky punch, signed a total abstinence pledge...
Temperamentally and physically he is a product of Russia, huge and ebullient, fond of liquor, fond of women, a hearty man after the Muscovite heart. Militarily, he is a product of the Soviet system. He learned his fighting in World War I, in the civil wars of 1918-20 and in the Russo-Polish campaign of 1920. In Frunze Military Academy, nursery of Soviet generals, he studied tank and air warfare. The priestly-looking Rokossovsky fought in the great battle of Smolensk in July 1941, which was a Pyrrhic victory for the Germans. He learned the essence of German tactics...
...blazed on the beach, her stores of flour, raisins and rice fermented. "A moonshiner's dream," the exec called it. "We could have made enough liquor to supply the whole station, including the press...