Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strawberries for Cash. In appearance and manner, Wallace was the prototypical Midwesterner. From the rebellious shock of hair to the scuffed shoes, he looked like the perennial farm boy. Yet behind the craggy, Scotch-Irish face and diffident blue eyes lurked a bewildering blend of intellectual acumen and messianic wrongheadedness...
...York for $365 The growing cost of such miscellaneous items as cabs, phones and tips also empties the businessman's pockets. Taxi fares have risen 12% in Helsinki over the past year, about 8% in New York. Tax hikes have raised the price of a bottle of Scotch in Helsinki by 5% to a sobering $11 a fifth. In Helsinki, one British businessman complained to the Financial Times, eating out is "costing $84 a year in tips to cloakroom attendants for bowler hat and umbrella...
Clearly in her element, she looked slightly peeved when the telephone interrupted our conversation, for the visionary moment was lost as she plunged into rapid dialogue about an immediate problem. When she hung up the receiver, she took a sip of her scotch and soda, turned to me smiling, and said, "Now, where were we?" Then she plunged into a series of questions concerning the world situation...
...parents were descended from pure-blooded WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants)-though, as Lindsay is fond of pointing out, "If you are really hip, the correct term is ASP; all Anglo-Saxons are white, so why be redundant?" His father, George Nelson Lindsay, was the son of a Scotch-Irish brickmaker from the Isle of Wight who went broke in 1884 and emigrated to New York. John Lindsay'? mother, Eleanor Vliet Lindsay, was the daughter of a Dutch-descended New Jersey carpentry contractor whose ancestors dated back to colonial times...
...Cards. It took a long while, but somebody finally got under Duffy Daugherty's Scotch-Irish skin. Last summer Big Ten sportswriters picked Michigan State to finish no better than fourth in the conference, and M.S.U.'s own publicity people handed out releases suggesting that the Spartans would "have difficulty bettering last year's 4-5 record." Duffy's answer was to send a personal postcard to every member of his team, outlining a four-week program of good food and exercise that they were to complete before reporting for practice...