Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe buildings are normally not available for evening meetings or extracurricular activities, making it necessary for Harvard-Radcliffe organizations to use Harvard buildings. Liquor is also prohibited within the Radcliffe buildings. The Harvard Dean's Office must thus use money allocated for janitorial fees for organizations with Radcliffe members, and arrange for chaperones "for another college," Watson said...
Bending an Ankle? In Cooksville, Ont., John Kraycik, 59, accused of buying $257 worth of liquor in seven weeks and illegally offering it for sale, denied the charges, explained that he used the booze to sweeten his tea and "soak my feet," added: "I don't get drunk; I just feel good all day long...
That night some of the defendants, black and white together, gathered at a house for a little celebration. Policemen raided the place, acting under a South African law that forbids serving liquor to nonwhites. Meanwhile, the government announced that because the defendants had not yet, during the long preliminary hearings, pleaded either guilty or not guilty, a new indictment would be filed. The 91 defendants were right back where they were nine months...
Nonwhisky liquors have also bounced up, nearly doubling their market share since 1949 to 23%. The reason again is mildness: odorless, light-bodied vodka has jumped from virtually nothing to 6% of liquor sales. Scotch and Canadian whiskies have sliced into U.S. distillers' markets until imports are 13% of total liquor sales...
Faced with this situation, it is a comfort to live in Massachusetts. For the Commonwealth, the home of the Blue Laws and Cotton Mather, of no baseball on Sunday mornings and no sherry under twenty-one, is already resisting. In a sharp letter to the liquor barons, the Massachusetts Beverage Control deplored the use of the "pictures and/or name of St. Nicholas--also called Santa Claus" in its advertising. Here, at least, the spirit that warmed Salem is not yet extinguished...