Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routine handling brought a roar of protest from liquor dealers, amazed at the gullibility of Eugene C. Pulliam's* Republic. The letter, they said, was a fake, a rewrite of old prohibitionist propaganda that had been planted in the Republic as part of the drys' campaign to put over a local option law backed, added the wets, by Oklahoma bootleggers anxious to expand their business...
Life on the treeless, 2½-mile-high Andean altiplano is about as bleak and miserable as anywhere in the world. Seeking release from this reality, the impoverished mountain Indians drink so much hard liquor that whole villages are sometimes knocked out for days at a time. The United Nations commission for technical assistance to Bolivia, currently investigating all phases of Bolivian life, has just about decided that drinking is the country's No. 1 social evil, surpassing even the coca-chewing habit...
...Bolivian government has not done much about the problem either, but this summer a labor delegation from the Catavi tin mining region called on President Urriolagoitia and asked that the sale of alcohol be prohibited or limited in their area. As a result, the government forbade the sale of liquor within twelve miles of the Catavi mines. This act might stimulate tin production, might also stimulate activity outside the twelve-mile limit...
...Tilden, Little Bill Johnston, Vincent Richards, Molla Mallory, Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs were customarily put up in the sprawling seashore-gothic palaces of the members. Seabright was quiet, too. If a visitor happened to ask for a highball, he was gently reminded that the club has never served liquor. Nor, for 73 years, did the club allow Sunday-morning tennis, though that rule was repealed this year...
Private Lives. In Portland, Ore., the state liquor commission reported that most small-town Oregonians buy their liquor in other towns than their own, suggested possible explanations: the buyer does not want to be seen buying liquor by 1) other members of his church congregation, 2) his creditors, 3) friends who might stop by for a drink...