Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult mountain march in a driving rainstorm, she was wearing the only rain cape in the entire army. Though it was soggy, she offered it to him-and he reluctantly accepted. (This, observes Witke, was a personal victory for her.) A little later, he removed a thermos flask of liquor from his belt and silently passed it to her. At one point during her recollections, Chiang Ch'ing reached for a gold-brocaded box and drew from it a delicately carved sandalwood fan. On it, in a sample of Mao's own renowned calligraphy...
...only porn magazine which does not equate sex with money. Unlike Playboy, Penthouse, Oui and Gallery (the other four in the big five) the pictorials are not filled with feather-bedecked women waiting in expensively decorated apartments for well-dressed, well-tanned young men. Hustler accepts no liquor or cigarette advertising, the mainstays of men's magazines. Whether this is done for moral reasons or as a neat stratagem for future court cases is impossible to say, but the absence of Winston and Salem men fits the editorial policy well. Each month Hustler turns over its lucrative back cover...
Indeed, Uganda is a shabby relic after six years of monumental misrule. The economy is a shambles. Nobody is starving, since there are plenty of bananas, the main staple for both food and (in distilled form) liquor. Corn, tapioca and yams also help ensure enough food for survival. But apart from the soil, not much of anything works today in Idi Amin's Uganda. Coffee and cotton were Uganda's chief export crops, but Asian and European marketing expertise has gone, and exports have declined drastically. At a time when coffee is at world-record high prices...
...which bear Amin's bejowled and bemedaled portrait, have always been worthless outside the country and now count for nothing inside because people do not want them. Instead, they would rather have scarce butter or a slab of meat or a bottle of waragi, a potent, banana-base liquor. Money is worthless because there is so little to buy with it. The rare visitor from Kenya who brings in Kenya currency, and risks arrest or worse in so doing, can get five shillings for one, even though the two shilling currencies remain officially...
...medicine. In spite of the collegial authorship, Editor Sigmund Stephen Miller has managed to maintain a refreshingly wry tone. For example, in discussing nutrition, he notes that "sad to say, more organic food is sold than grown." Stressing preventive medicine, which is frequently neglected, he condemns smoking, prescribes liquor only in moderation and cries fowl (as well as fish) to saturated-fat-laden beef...