Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact I was so tickled with it that, being Scotch, I saved it up and used it on three later occasions...
...laughter of yeh chi ("wild chickens") rang through every thick-carpeted hotel corridor. The steaks were thick and plentiful. Real Scotch (not Australian) whiskey flowed. Hotel beds had spring mattresses and clean white sheets. By changing U.S. dollars to Chungking dollars to Nanking dollars to Japanese yen, the fabulously inflated prices unreasonably became reasonable (steaks 50?, silk nightgowns $3). For 15 incredible days the celebration throbbed-firecrackers and kisses, music and laughter. British and U.S. soldiers were surrounded by "saltwater plums" (sailors' girls) from Szechwan Road, and by delicate Eurasian women, warm Russians, big-eyed Hungarians...
...scotch these stories, the U.S. Army last week took 31 newsmen to see with their own eyes the first awesome footprint of man's newest genie in the earth of New Mexico. Though the footprint was eight weeks old, it was still awesome...
...Yenan flocked to the airfield to see nervous Mao Tse-tung take off for his unity conference with Chiang Kaishek. U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley had flown up from Chungking the night before (with two cases of Scotch) to escort the Communist leader. Mao hugged his little daughter, kissed his young wife goodbye with the quiet desperation of a man going to be executed. Then he climbed aboard for the first plane ride of his 52 years, his first meeting with the Generalissimo in two decades of civil strife...
...second look, parched Canadians could see that the news was not intoxicatingly good. Beer and wine would still be as short as ever; Scotch and other imported liquors would be practically nonexistent ; rye would be scarce for the time being. The increase would have to be taken largely in gin, and that would be the same old watered wartime stuff...