Word: mash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrewd young man named Leslie Stevens and palmed off on the Broadway public as a play. Partly because the jokes were slickly written, mostly because they were deftly read by two famous charm merchants (Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert) and a well-stacked skyscraper (Julie Newmar), the play was a mash hit and ran more than a year...
...seizures of hot blood and high deeds, the heroes-one for each generation -make corn squeezings. They are artists who operate the pot still as if it were a pipe organ, mixing corn and small grain with boiling water, adding yeast, and from this wort-which is what the mash is called-distilling clear ethyl alcohol. Redistilled to remove foul-tasting fusel oil, aged for color and character in charred oak casks, the alcohol becomes whisky. Robinson is so explicit that an attentive reader with no fear of federal agents could try it himself...