Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diva to a photograph he considers ill-chosen. In effect, what Mailer has produced is a record of an artistic crackup. By the early 1950s the spare, controlled prose of The Naked and the Dead had turned sour and turgid, and its author was drifting in a haze of liquor, seconal and marijuana. Mailer has stopped using "the minor drugs," he says (although he believes that after a few more years of suppression marijuana will be as widely used as was bootleg gin in the '203), but his book gives no sure sign that the wreck is under effective...
...Position. In Cincinnati, when Patrolman Charles L. Gellenbeck took out his false teeth to exhibit them, the chief detected liquor on his breath, had him fired...
MOONSHINE WHISKY sales last year rose to record $1 billion, and 55,000,000 gal. moonshine production accounted for between 20% and 25% of all liquor consumed in U.S. Government's losses: $750 million...
Situation Adjustment. In Compton, Calif., when burglars held up Liquor Store Owner Max Stanman, and invited the half a dozen customers in the store to help themselves, customers and crooks alike marched out with arms full...
...some men, it's dope. For others, liquor. For others, tobacco, skiing, football, anything." The grease-smeared hot-rodder from El Monte, Calif, grinned. "For me, it's speed...