Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repaired. If an Australian is lucky, he gets four gallons of gasoline a month. Horse racing and all sports have been curtailed, and the gambling he loves is limited to patriotic lotteries and raffles for such luxuries as hams, sides of bacon, boxes of candy, sometimes a bottle of Scotch...
...score, a sizable group of spectators would retire from the stand as if by signal. Jay Gould would stamp through the festive crowds to the court-tennis court without so much as a glance at the lawn-tennis champions. The champions themselves paused between games to sip a Scotch & soda, a conviviality not unwelcome to the youthful Irish shackers (ball boys) in their cocky yachting caps, red sweaters and disreputable trousers...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., it appeared, owed Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham a bottle of Scotch-the General had bet the Admiral that it would take more than eight days to unload the task force on Sicily...
...quick-moving, intense, with direct brown eyes in a full-fleshed, dark, mobile face set off with a small, grey mustache, horn-rimmed glasses and insufficient salt & pepper hair. He likes his fun and has it, drinks a wide variety of liquors, from national raki to good Scotch whiskey, but is more moderate now than in his younger days. He is still spry in friendly company, often takes to the dance floor to perform the Sarizeybek, a finger-snapping, foot-stomping Izmir mountain dance learned in his native village...
...want to thank you very much for sending me that phonograph record of "The Star Spangled Banner" . . . we now have our public address system working much better at colors . . . maybe except for that chipped part that we covered with SCOTCH tape . . . once in a while on Monday mornings we can detect a bit of "Loch Lomond" blending in . . . or is it the scotch in me? . . . Speaking of music, Company Baker is having a bit of music trouble now with the thought of moving ashore next month for they will have to find a new place for the North Matthews "Swing...