Word: rum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doors. Armed guards stood in the halls, telephone calls were banned, a Swiss embassy representative was turned away. But no one was harmed, and next day the Americans were permitted to return to Miami in a regularly scheduled Pan American DC-6. Now their luggage included cartons of Cuban rum emblazoned: "Let's go to Cuba-the friendly island next door...
...frozen fresh daiquiri mix (Don the Beachcomber) in a 6-oz. can from which twelve daiquiris can be made by adding ice and rum. Price...
PALINDROMES: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama; Piel's lager on red rum did murder no regal sleep...
Reagan argued that the Federal Government was running "more than 19,000 businesses covering 47 lines of activity-from rum distilling to the manufacture of surgical equipment. Operating tax free, dividend free and rent free in direct competition with its own citizens, the Government loses billions each year in the businesses." Once in business, Reagan noted, the Government is reluctant to get out: "Congress ordered the liquidation of the Spruce Products Corp. in 1920, but 30 years later it was still in existence. The corporation was founded in World War I to find spruce wood for airplane frames...
...restaurant's liquor list reads like a South Sea adventure. After an encounter with a White Witch (pure white Jamaica rum) or a Rangoon Ruby (vodka and cranberry juice), the drinker may well feel such a Suffering Bastard (rums, lime and liqueurs) that he will want to see Dr. Funk of Tahiti ("redolent of French rums and absinthe"). Actually, the author of these "Polynesian" cocktails has never roamed the South Seas. Nevertheless, salty, peg-legged Victor Bergeron, 58, has parlayed a flair for serving good food amid a supply of grass skirts, Tiki gods and outrigger canoes into...