Word: rum
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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...
...premiere of Laurence Olivier's version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Sam had dropped Anne a line, asking her to see it with him. While waiting for her at the cinema, Sam fortified himself at the next-door pub with two pints of bitter and a rum-and-Coke. Wasn't he nervous? "She's like any other bird, really," he gulped. When Anne turned up, though, and proffered her hand, Sam kissed it -strictly not done with royalty, and certainly not the customary greeting for birds in the East...