Word: scotch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eliot house has less scotch and fewer cigars, and at 48.5 percent, the College's incoming class boasts the highest percentage of females Harvard has ever seen. In fact, on a student level a relatively full integration has taken place, with the exception of the all-male final clubs...
...Weekly, notes that "people want to read something they view as significant or trendy or that people are talking about." Could books be the latest life-style accessories? The equivalent of cigars for the brain? Several liquor firms have taken to sponsoring literary evenings at which prospective single-malt-Scotch buyers clink glasses with budding novelists. The association of booze and books is long, close and infamously troubled (would a stumbling William Faulkner or Dylan Thomas be welcome at such a gathering?), but the distilleries don't seem fazed. Nor do the clubbable, complicit writers...
...rates." Some groups ask for $10 a month, in addition to the $70 payment each patient gets from his or her employer; others demand $20, still others $40 (no deductibles though). You pays your money--along with funds kicked in by such employers as Pillsbury, General Mills, Honeywell or Scotch tape-maker 3M--and you takes your choice...
...Dean Koontz and Stephen King sat down with a bottle of Scotch and tried to figure out the most bizarre ending to this family they could," says William Murray, Madalyn O'Hair's estranged older son, the one who converted to Christianity, "whatever really happened was probably more bizarre than that." Hyperbole is a Murray-O'Hair family trait, but the assessment is not totally astray. One day in August 1995, Madalyn, then 76, along with Jon, 40, and Robin, 30, vanished from the house on Greystone Drive, reportedly with breakfast still cooking, and were never seen again. Tax returns...
...also told them that alcohol and drugs were the two things that could ruin lives, either by leading to an auto accident or by causing addiction. They pointed out that I smoked cigarettes and drank Scotch. My answer: Had I known at age 14, when I started smoking, what we learned by the 1970s, I hope I would never have...