Word: mash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1791, when the U.S. imposed the first tax on whisky, moonshiners have plied their intermittent trade in Dixie's piney woods. They still make a lively dew. At times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...
...Tennessean news columns, as distinctively flavored as Tennessee sour mash bourbon, heavy local coverage is liberally laced with national and international news and brightly written features. Evans, who always considered reporting "the most important and best job on a newspaper," was never happier than when his staffers were digging up a political exposé or spicy feature, such as the discovery of Nashville Heir Tom Buntin in Texas 22 years after he vanished with his secretary...
...modern corruption. Before the age of abundance, everybody got tired before coming to "sidesies" and simply ate the eggs. At the White House last week, nobody bothered to roll eggs or pick eggs or butt eggs; it was much more fun to throw eggs at one another or to mash them into the grass. Calling Mr. Bailey. In preparation for the big romp, gardeners rolled out 3,000 feet of storm fencing to protect flower beds, shrubbery and the presidential putting green. (Many visitors draped themselves over the fence around the green in the hope of finding lost golf balls...
...After five months in the U.S. last year, Bishop Eivind Berggrav, retired Primate of Norway, wrote an ecclesiastical mash note to the U.S., published in the current issue of the U.S. fortnightly Christianity & Crisis. "To me, American church life seemed to be more attractive, more in contact with people in general than is the case in Europe. This may be the result of the warmth of your church atmosphere . . . The European churches consist of individuals, the American ones more of families." The clublike sociability of U.S. Protestant churches reminds Bishop Berggrav of "the social trend so often noticeable...
...Mash Note...