Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montreal recently, two fellow drinkers and I invented the Rose Between Two Thorns: vodka (one thorn). Dubonnet (the rose) and gin (the other thorn) on the rocks with a twist of lemon...
...stop a crunching ground attack, swiftly became obsolete as more and more teams included the pass among the weapons in their arsenals. Still, brilliant passers, brilliant receivers-and brilliant passing combinations-were few and far between. There was Friedman-to-Oosterbaan, of course. There were Alabama's Rose Bowl champions of 1935, with Dixie Howell throwing to Don Hutson-who later went on to the Green Bay Packers and set five National Football League pass-receiving records that still stand today...
...been defeated in a congressional election by Julio Nalundasan, a sharp-tongued Nacionalista who had insulted Mariano fiercely during the course of the campaign. To Filipinos, insults cannot go unanswered. On a stormy, wind-whipped night shortly after Pistol Champion Ferdie Marcos had returned to Ilocos on vacation, Nalundasan rose from his dinner table and walked to a washbasin. He was starkly silhouetted in the lighted window. A single .22-cal. bullet cracked in the banana tree outside, and Nalundasan dropped dead, shot through the heart. The shadow of suspicion was heavy: Mariano had been defeated and insulted; Ferdie...
...Tories certainly hoped so. "This is a great opportunity for us," said Conservative Leader Ted Heath to 4,000 cheering delegates at Blackpool. "The Tory Party has always been the party which enables people to live fruitfully in freedom." Other Tories rose to underscore Heath's claim, pledging to abolish the controls that the Laborites are imposing. They promised, for example, to denationalize the steel industry if the Labor government makes good its pledge to renationalize it. Similarly, the Tories vowed to repeal Wilson's Selective Employment Tax and rescind recent tax hikes. When and if the whirlwind...
...often happens, the little bears got into short-selling just in time to be badly hurt; they had to scramble quickly as the averages rose to cover short positions in both glamour stocks and blue chips. As a result, both highflyers and such long-dull blue chips as A.T. & T., Chrysler, Du Pont, Jersey Standard and U.S. Steel were traded unusually heavily, and most ended the week with a gain...