Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pausing occasionally for a swig of the Scotch and water on the stand before him.* Lloyd lectured the House on Britain's nagging problem of productivity, asked for standby power to tax companies 4 shillings (56?) per week for each worker they employ, as a means of encouraging them to switch to more efficient, labor-saving machinery. To fight inflation and help bolster sagging exports, the chancellor proposed that Parliament drop the system of fixing excise and purchase taxes by law, leave it to the government to manipulate the rates within limits as it sees fit, raising the taxes...
Martini, Manhattan, Scotch and soda? What's your preference? Two members of the Social Relations Department will soon be happy to serve your choice of liquor in an attempt to test the effects of alcohol on fantasy...
Life on the White House social front was just as active. At the first Kennedy reception (for 300 executive appointees and their families), there was a well-stocked bar in the presidential mansion for the first time in Washington's memory-bourbon, Scotch, vodka, champagne, martinis, and Cokes for the kids. Washington Star Reporter Betty Beale was so startled that she wrote a story next day listing all the shattered precedents. Among them: newsmen were allowed to mingle with guests, hors d'oeuvres were fancier than ever, guests were welcomed as soon as they arrived instead of waiting...
Comments on the program have been "favorable and pleasant," especially with regard to the visual devices, reported Mosteller. The devices, he explained, are deliberately those "which a secondary school teacher can use inexpensively or build herself with scotch tape." One of the main purposes of the course is "to provide potential and actual high school teachers with adequate training to teach modern mathematics to seniors," he said...
...deep valleys and rugged mountains of India's North-East Frontier Agency live a tangle of secretive tribes with peculiar habits. The wily Daflas wear jockey caps with feathers; Gallong girls can have multiple husbands; the Tangsas dress in scotch-plaid sarongs. Apa Tani women are adorned with nose plugs and large, looped earrings, while Hill Miri girls wear tight petticoats of woven cane that give them a mincing walk. The Abors love to dance and fight, and the Mishmis, though remarkably handsome, have nevertheless been described by European explorers as being "excessively dirty" as well as "deceitful...