Word: magnum
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...triumph. This week’s issue of U.S. News & World Report noted that security police had apparently taken such advice to heart and were indeed searching for less violent techniques to deal with incipient anti-FTAA unrest; but one Miami shop clerk claimed to be packing a .357 magnum just in case. “The entire city was paved over with riot cops,” exclaimed Harvard student Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, who found herself unceremoniously jailed during the demonstrations...
Dave G. Mainland ’05 is turning 21 this weekend. To celebrate the occasion, Mainland’s roommates purchased a rather feminine assemblage of drinks, including a case of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, 5 boxes of Franzia, a magnum of Peach Schnapps, and no less than 12 handles of Malibu. Says Mainland of his roommate’s generosity, “I really appreciate their efforts, but I’m more of whiskey man myself…[pause]…but, my [16 year-old] sister Becky?...
Their favorite drinks include the Blue Hawaii (vodka, pineapple juice and Blue Curacao) and Gin and Tonics for black light parties because of the fluorescent quinine. They also praise their house specialty—the Magnum 313 with Rum, Vodka, Cranberry Juice, OJ and a secret ingredient (it’s Sprite...
...practically family to Weill--or that Weill's gibes were in fun. Never mind too that Weill, Prince and Willumstad spent the weekend at Weill's country home in the Adirondacks in upstate New York celebrating the succession plan over a meal of sea bass and a rare magnum of 1966 Henri Voillot Pommard from Weill's cellar. This is business, and Weill has been spectacularly good and merciless at it, even at the cost of some of his closest business relationships...
Rawls is credited with reviving the social contract tradition in philosophy, and his magnum opus, A Theory of Justice, is considered a staple of undergraduate reading lists...