Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Integrity v. Thirst. Jimmy had some actual opponents for the job, but they were feeble and halfhearted. Chief among them: Chicago Teamsters Tom Haggerty and Bill Lee. Trying at first to campaign on moral grounds, Haggerty opened campaign headquarters in the gargantuan Fontainebleau Hotel, dispensed several cases of liquor before he discovered that the Teamster delegates were less morally indignant over Hoffa's actions than they were thirsty. "We got a new slogan," rasped one Hoffaman: " 'Haggerty for integrity. Hoffa for president.' " Bill Lee, too, ran a losing battle, for among other things, he boasted the doubtful...
...over horror of awaking on New Year's Day with the fantastic impression that a manhole cover was resting on his head. "Imagine my surprise," concluded the great man, "when I reached up and found out there was a manhole cover resting on my head." Without benefit of liquor, this sensation is available to the reader of the works (This Side of Innocence, Tender Victory) of Janet Miriam Taylor Caldwell...
...takes little pathfinding skill to find the Lawson Academy of Fine Arts. As the advertisements say, its studios are "above Harvard Pro," a scant flight of stairs away from the bottles and crates of Cambridge's thriving liquor outlet. This fact doesn't seem to bother either the artists or Lawson Mooney, their instructor, however, and the trim little rooms on the second floor are spiritually removed from the bustle of Mount Auburn Street...
Most notable are the Spring and Fall weekends which have long enjoyed an almost national fame for their intense concentration of sex and liquor into a compact and often uninterrupted 48-hour span...
Another comment, on the subject of drink was, "The main problem seems to be the outrageous extent of drinking at Cornell. We feel the only solution, which will seem completely absurd to many Cornellians, is to ban liquor at fraternities...