Word: rum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Audubon took small animals for his province, urged friends to send him specimens preserved in jars of rum. Son John tackled the bigger game, made trips as far from their Hudson River home as Texas to get the creatures right. He painted in precisely his father's style, and so well that few could distinguish between their work. "My wish," he wrote Victor, "[is] that my name will stand as does my father...
...draft, the Ernest Lapointe could barely squeeze through the antiquated existing locks. The Congressmen also noted that even now the river is busy with small boat commerce-evidence of potential Canadian profits if Ottawa carries out its threat to build the seaway alone. At Barnhart Island (once a rum-runners' hideaway), they watched the International Rapids plunge in wasted, foamy fury toward the sea, saw where generators could be built to pump 3,400,000 h.p. of electric energy into U.S. and Canadian industry...
...billion ($11.8 billion), it was the biggest budget in Britain's peacetime history. From the dark red dispatch box that was once William Gladstone's, Gaitskell drew the closely guarded pages of his speech. He spoke crisply for 2¼ hours, refreshed himself with occasional sips of rum-spiked orange juice. M.P.s listened intently; throughout the country, people waited anxiously...
...best Finance Minister Cuba ever had resigned last week. José ("Pepin") Bosch, 54, Lehigh-educated millionaire businessman (Bacardi rum and Hatuey beer), had entered the cabinet of President Carlos Prio, his old friend from revolutionary days, in order to help the government out of the fiscal red. He did the job in 14 prodigious months...
Ruin & Flames. In desperation, Diogène resorts to voodoo. He attends the "baptism" of Lourdes's baby, which involves dousing it in a basin of rum and perfume and then passing it over flames. He allows his wife to be treated by a voodoo sorceress who whips her seven times and plunges her into a foul bath prepared from sea water, herbs and asafetida. But even Diogène himself feels it is too late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead...