Word: maraschino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fountain of booze and a windfall of cash. So, he built a bar. Thus was born The Lounge and the legend of the Kong as we know it today. From the beginning, the foundation of that legend has been the Scorpion Bowl, a tub of fruit punch, maraschino cherries, orange slices, ice and a dash of vodka. Every night, for the past 20 years, mature adults have gathered to suck on three-foot straws as if those straws were their mothers' teats. Indeed, since the first Bowl was laid down in the center of a table by a disgruntled...
...into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air--some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries, another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships to make room for later-arriving choppers. For many Americans, it was like a death--long been expected but shocking when it finally...