Word: rum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times change, and Evanston city officials have wearied of watching local folk flock to bars, restaurants and hotels just outside the city limits. A proposal ending prohibition is expected to pass the city council this month. To stimulate business in downtown Evanston, the city is letting demon rum flow into the W.C.T.U.'s preserve...
Palm fronds hang listlessly overhead. A houseboy insolently serves up rum to old colonials. The veranda glares in the kind of heat that rots wood and souls...
...will be in Tanzania by summer. These days one of the swingingest places in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott is the Chinese cultural mission, which features French movies instead of propaganda films. In Zanzibar, where there are 400 Chinese in the aid mission, the latest building project is a rum distillery. Even imperial Ethiopia has established diplomatic relations with China...
...using a base of Frost 8/80, a Bloody Mary becomes a Diamond Lil; a Manhattan, a Great White Hope; a Daiquiri, an Igloo; a Martini, a Moby Dick; and a Screwdriver, a Monkey Wrench. The new whisky, it seems, is versatile enough to masquerade as gin, vodka or even rum...
Electronic Barkeep. Men on the working side of a bar are often reputed to have near-occult talents: only the legendary Harry of the Ritz could make the splendid martini; only Emory of Barbados understood the mysteries of rum punch. Now modern technology has provided a substitute: a device marketed by National Cash Register Co. with the drab name of Electra...