Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chronicle's John J. Lemon said of a similar ordi nance that had been proposed in Washington State, "The next victims of such rule making may be whistlers, gum chewers, bone crackers, dandruff scratchers, lint pickers and popcorn eat ers." Not to mention tooth pickers, gar lic eaters, liquor imbibers, belchers, non-bathers and puffers of pot at rock concerts...
Prohibition didn't work for liquor in the '20s, and it won't work for sex in the '70s. Leave the consenting adults alone and worry about the nonconsenting ones (rape, robbery and murder...
...some troubled drinkers think they are getting less belt from their highballs these days, they are right. Many liquor companies have been putting more distilled water and less alcohol into whisky and gin. During the past 20 months, the distillers of more than 100 labeled brands, including Seagram's 7 Crown, Four Roses, Hiram Walker's Imperial American blended whisky and Jim Beam bourbon, have reduced the proof from 86 to 80-without lowering the price or advertising the fact beyond printing the new proof on bottle labels. (Proof is twice the percentage of alcohol: an 86-proof...
...real point is that distillers have been suffering a financial hangover: liquor sales have risen 4% or less a year for the past five years, costs have soared for everything from barrels to bottle tops, and the companies have been afraid to raise whisky prices because a boost might drive customers to drink more beer and wine. Liquor prices rose only 3.6% last year. By reducing the proof, says Gerald Mooney, trade, press-and executive-relations manager of Hiram Walker, "we get what amounts to a price increase without passing that along to the consumer." Lowering the proof reduces both...
John Sennett, chairman of the Cambridge Licensing Board, said that no club has filed an application for a liquor license since the appearance of the Crimson article...