Word: rum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find the whale's gland in a 20-ft. head, Andersen must show uncanny judgment, for a misplaced stroke of the saw could slash through the pituitary itself. In 1956 Andersen retrieved 871 pituitaries from 898 blue and fin whales, got a bonus of half a bottle of rum for every 50 glands. (On other ships, an estimated 30,000 more whale pituitaries were gathered.) An average season's catch of pituitaries will bring the owners of one ship little more than $2,000, but says a spokesman, "our policy is waste not, want not-particularly for medical...
What to drink is almost as large a question as how to drink it. A favorite is milk punch (a little sugar, brandy, rum or whiskey, ice, and milk 'til tasty). The thermos bottle set still swears by hot buttered rum (with a dash of bitters and a clove or two). The most effective standbys are vodka and any kind of juice which will disguise the alcohol (temporarily) from a dainty date...
...need not tell you about the rest. You know how congenial, how satisfying the after-game party was, a network of warm friendships, a hubbub of excited, laughing conversations, laced through with the bracing stimulation of hot rum punch. You know also what their dinner was like, the chicken cacciatore, the wine, the one candle filling their flushed faces with flickering figments of fantasy. You know what the play was like, the hurrying into seats, the white furs and black satin lapels, the amiable crowd in the lobby at intermission. But then you don't know what transpired...
...chamber itself, and Clucas took the front glass off his helmet. "He was so cold," said Clucas. "So very cold. He could hardly stand up when he reached me." The two men sat down for a long, dull, eight-hour wait, supplied with candy, hot coffee, reading matter and rum...
...seersucker, Munoz Marin stopped at roadsides, walked into rural shacks or perched on fences to trade ribald banter and homely philosophy with the jibaros (country folk) who support him. He called meetings of local committees of his Popular Democratic Party, and around tables loaded with bottles of beer and rum chatted with the politicos until long after midnight. Occasionally, discarding his tie and his habitual melancholy expression,-he made a hoarse oration...