Word: rum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Skiing is more than a simple winter sport; it's a complete vacation. Combined with the off-trail activity, the rum and cider and the warm nights in a ski lodge, it can be a relaxing way to spend a few days between classes or just for a day trip...
...RUM AND COKE Keith Reddin, who was four years old during the Bay of Pigs invasion, sensitively evoked its tragicomic excesses and catastrophic outcome for Cuban exiles and American scions of privilege and for the Government they both served...
Because Exeter has extremely strict rulesagainst drinking, my high school memories of theHead weekend always include carefully cushioningand concealing bottles inside my alreadyoverloaded backpack. I learned to like rum andcoke because you can drink out of a soda canwithout looking suspicious...
...fortunes of early New World merchants were amassed by trading opium and rum (as well as slaves). George Washington, historians believe, probably used hemp (marijuana) to ease his dental pains. President Ulysses Grant took cocaine in his last years while writing his memoirs, on the advice of his publisher Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain...
Besides weighing in with wine coolers in three flavors, Seagram last month began test-marketing an unusual liquor-based hybrid called Golden Spirits, which is flavored with natural fruit essences to produce mixtures like peach- melba rum. "They are selling extraordinarily well," says House of Seagram President Edgar Bronfman Jr. Rival distillers are blending other cocktails. Connecticut's Heublein, maker of Smirnoff vodka, is test-marketing Tropic Freezers, which turn into frozen drinks like strawberry daiquiris after about six hours in a customer's freezer...