Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial stages of the party it dispensed Scotch, but this ran out quickly, leaving Martinis, slivowitz (plum brandy) and orange juice. The flow of these potions, however, was reduced to a mere dribble: the amateur bartenders ran out of glasses. The guests wheeled hungrily toward the buffet. There was no trace of the usual turkeys, Virginia hams, salmon and pâtés which capital partygoers consider their legitimate reward-only fresh-cheeked girls circulating with trays of snippets of homemade sandwiches and tiny pastries...
...being able to work miracles. Chief of State Bao Dai recently flew to Hanoi, supposedly to bolster the people's morale in the face of an expected Communist offensive. Bao Dai arrived in his C-45, which also carried a Scotty named Bubi, two bottles of King George Scotch, two guitars, three tennis rackets, 16 pieces of miscellaneous baggage and a cute, redheaded airline hostess named Esther. Wearing his inevitable dark glasses and a natty grey flannel suit, Bao Dai drove along roads lined with French Tommy-gunners facing the long grass where Communist snipers might be hiding...
...scotch for breakfast today, warm...
...such informal touches and by generous benefits (retirement plans, stock-participation programs, etc.), McDonnell has kept morale high, has never lost a day's production through strikes. Neither has he lost his Scotch canniness; for the annual Christmas party, he figured out that exactly twelve ounces of eggnog per person was the right amount to insure conviviality without excessive hilarity-and ordered the whisky accordingly. As a result of such dollar-watching, his overhead, says the Navy, is among the lowest in the business...
...poured into Edinburgh. American collegians in crew cuts and seersuckers, arty Frenchmen wearing beards and corduroys, sturdy Scandinavians in hiking boots and shorts, grey-haired elders with guidebooks in hand thronged broad, flag-lined Princes and George Streets, puffed up Castle Hill, or jammed into pubs where Scotch was plentiful at 63? a double shot...