Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making of one of Her Majesty's ministers in Britain is something akin to turning out a good Scotch whisky. It takes considerable mellowing in the cask of Commons, a goodly bit of gentle sloshing about in the lower recesses of the ship of state and a year or two in the political cellar of some influential member of Her Majesty's government...
Private Life: For relaxation, likes golf (low 80s), dancing, gin rummy, canasta ; likes a Martini or a Scotch & soda; smokes cigarettes, pipes, and especially expensive Panatella cigars. Hates dealing with household chores; likes loud sport clothes, good automobiles (he drives a Cadillac), science-fiction and westerns, comic strips (his favorite: Dick Tracy), and movies with happy endings...
...Hampshire, a cramped, L-shaped bedroom on the second floor of Manchester's Eagle Hotel was jammed and seething. Coats & hats were piled on the twin beds, and people were perching cheerfully on top of the coats & hats. Others helped themselves to the open bottles of Scotch, bourbon and rye on the dresser, or dug into the communal paper buckets of chop suey, chicken and egg rolls on the table. Looming above the pandemonium, with the air of a prophet who has just been slugged by a vigorous vision, was Candidate Estes Kefauver. He moved slowly through the throng...
...Stock up on no-longer-to-be-imported Scotch whisky...
...walk among them, trying not to get trampled and swinging their lassos . . . The most important thing at the roundup is jaloviina, which is a mixture of brandy and alcohol distilled from wood. But the Lapps also like foreign firewaters. I just happened to have with me a bottle of Scotch. My interpreter foolishly mentioned this fact, and we were presently informed that it would be a nice gesture if we offered a drink to the Lapp chieftain. The chieftain, of course, had to pass it along to some sub-chieftains and the stuff was gone before you could say jaloviina...