Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans and French will put up at swank Claridge's, the Russians in their own Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens ("Millionaires' Row"). Last week one hotel requested more Scotch "for the Americans." Ruled the Foreign Office: "They'll get enough at the various receptions...
Fighting Mood. All the Scotch in the world would not wash away the probability that UNO was heading into a rough maiden voyage. The original intention was to confine the first meeting to first matters like establishing the Security Council and electing a Secretary-General. But the world was too full of controversy to keep the agenda antiseptic...
...greatest trials came in the conscription crisis of 1944. Mackenzie King is thoroughly Scotch-English in temperament. He speaks but the poorest French and has little fondness for French Canadians as such. But he is well aware of the need for unity in a country long racked by sectional strife between its 3,500,000 French and the rest of Canada. He has always given French Canada what he considers fair and just treatment. When he was forced to impose military conscription, because of the soldier shortage in October 1944, he was squarely on the horns of a dilemma...
Mistaken for the highest code in the U.S. Intelligence files, CINCRTO dispatched a plane post haste to deliver the vital missive in a hollow bomb. Fortunately, it arrived in time for a wardroom celebration on the last two inches of scotch in the medical officer's stores...
...bagpipes announced the arrival of four kilted veterans, bearing aloft a haggis, "great chieftain o' the puddin' race." Behind them, a kilted soldier carried a sheathed dirk at the salute, closely followed by a proud bearer holding on high a bottle of King's Ransom Scotch whiskey...