Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week that after wartime's austerity, the number of deaths from cirrhosis of the liver quadrupled from 1947 to 1950, tripled again by 1956. The peak total that year: 20,279 deaths from alcoholism, 14-176 of them from cirrhosis. Cause of the trouble is not hard liquor, said Dr. Godlewski, which most Frenchmen use sparingly, but ordinary red wine, or le gros rouge. Alcoholism is not the only contributing cause of cirrhosis, and may not lead to it at all if the rest of the diet is properly balanced. But the cause-and-effect relationship in France...
Delivering the traditionally humorous Ivy Oration, Harold E. Fitzgibbons protested against an alleged "Puritan revival" on the part of the University, exemplified by bans on parking and liquor in the stadium. He also suggested that the Program for Harvard College might be augmented by turning Soldiers Field into a dog-track during the "off-season," which he claimed extended throughout the year...
...CRIMSON, undoubtedly heartened by this display for lawlessness, conducted a poll in conjunction with fourteen other colleges; results showed that out of 24,000 votes, 15,000 of American college youth were willing to lose their reputation for virtue in order to support repeal or modification of the liquor laws. Pennsylvania, however, was the exception to the rule, and the Quakers registered a majority dry vote. Princeton, naturally enough, had the wettest vote. Over 79 per cent of the Tigers admitted that they drank...
...found a job in a Barcelona bar--an American bar. All foreign liquor was illegal 'cause they want to peddle the local cognac, but the cops had a system where they'd come around once at Easter to collect a fine, and then you're holding aces for the rest of the year. They had real organization there; lots of it." He lit another cigarette and continued...
...GLASS." So saying, in three of its restaurants the twelve-restaurant chain trotted out 864 new shot glasses, each delivering an extra ⅜ oz. of spirits for the old, prerecession price (85?). Longchamps' long shot was not in the dark; a test run with the new glasses boosted liquor sales 5% in one restaurant...