Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...rolling greenery. They are not formally graded. No specific courses or credits are required. With the guidance of a faculty counselor they can map their own path toward a degree. They have social freedom as well: they can leave their white clapboard houses any evening, stay out overnight, keep liquor in their cabinets, have men in their rooms until 11 p.m. on weekends...
...Supreme Court in 1932, in Sorrells v. U.S. A man named Martin went to call on Sorrells, an old war buddy who was suspected of dealing in moonshine whisky. Martin wanted some booze. Sorrells said that he "did not fool with whisky." After repeated requests, Sorrells brought out the liquor-whereupon Old War Buddy Martin, who was also an old Prohibition agent, arrested him. Sorrells was convicted, and a circuit court affirmed the decision. In reversing the conviction, the Supreme Court said: "Congress could not have intended that its statutes were to be enforced by tempting innocent persons into violations...
Everything--food, drink, transportation, and children--has been taken care of by the Reunion committee. There is breakfast at the Union, brunch at the Pudding, lunch in the Houses, and dinner on the indoor tennis courts. There is liquor--an estimated $80,000 worth--before and after everything. Busses run to Gloucester, to golf clubs, from Quincy House up the street to street to Sever Hall; cars stay parked in free spaces around the Yard...
...generation of church leaders that their traditional conception of sin and evil must be broadened. The Rev. Browning Ware, of Beaumont, Texas, expressed the general anxiety vividly. He questioned pastors who "buckle on the armor of protectors of public interest and rush to do battle with gambling, liquor, and separation of church and state" while taking little heed of "conflicts in human relations, adequate education, and poverty...