Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pray (a Skill of yours I much admire) and bann the consumption of intoxicating Spirits. You may remember one of my Famous Sayings: "One man with courage makes a majority." Much of my early life was spent in the Co. of soldiers, and I know how compleatly liquor can buttress a man's courage. On the happy day you become President, Washington will have room for only so many majorities...
Making Merry. With vodka having overtaken bourbon as the nation's best-selling liquor, the U.S. distributors of the famed Angostura bitters have marketed their first new product in 150 years: the Angostura Bloody Merry-Maker. Unlike the other Bloody Mary mixes that have long been available, Angostura's version is all additives, leaving the bartender to provide his own tomato juice and vodka. The idea behind the bottled blend of Worcestershire sauce, natural lemon flavor, bitters and spices is to let drinkers mix their Bloody Marys to taste. Each eight-fluid-ounce bottle ($1.60) can be used...
...competition with Bell for a $1 billion Pentagon contract. KLAS-TV in Las Vegas is bristling with $1 million in new equipment. In October, the new $4 million Hughes Aviation Terminal opened formally in Las Vegas. Among its features: banks of slot machines, a U.S. customs station, and a liquor store that sells Coors by the case...
...large, dramatic chunks of history that close with a bang, noticeable to the world, but odd personal eras, those less obtrusive small changes that in retrospect loom large in the heart. Like the time, at the close of Prohibition, when Hallowell's restaurant in Edgartown got a liquor license and went to hell, gastronomically speaking. Or the introduction of offset printing in place of the old linotype at the Vineyard Gazette. At the time Hough, somewhat uneasily, one suspects, tried to see it all as progress. He quotes Carlyle: "He who first shortened the labor of copyists...
...would never see girls drinking liquor straight out of the bottle while walking down the street," Whitlock says...