Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing so crude in naming the hard case played by Frank Sinatra. They called him Danny Ocean. This not only permits a title too baffling to leave the mind easily; it offers a straight line for any number of jokes (Sinatra an ocean? He ain't even a Scotch and water...
Professional people are especially harpsichord-prone. Doctors, psychiatrists, teachers and ministers are among the most active amateurs in the New York area. In New Orleans, Attorney Thomas B. Lemann finds himself hard put to explain his own harpsichordia ("Why do you prefer bourbon to Scotch?"), but admits that "there is a simplicity about it" that appeals strongly to his children, who are being raised without any knowledge of the upstart piano. Most harpsichord buffs have a strong proprietary sense. When a New Orleans amateur, Charles Hazlett, lent his harpsichord to touring Virtuoso Fernando Valenti, the visitor was amazed. Said Valenti...
...SCOTCH DRINKERS will down 10 million cases a year in the U.S. by 1965, if present trend continues. Consumption last year hit more than 7,000,000 cases, up from...
...Kennedy living room, Jack and L.B.J. and their lieutenants faced each other in a circle. Johnson sipped a weak Scotch and soda, pulled documents and memoranda from his fat dispatch case, and dominated the meeting. Since the upcoming session of Congress was Topic A, Jack was content to listen to the advice and schemes of his leader in the Senate, Lyndon Johnson. Wives Jackie and Lady Bird sat together on a nearby couch, put through long-distance calls for the conferees to Adlai Stevenson* and Governor Steve McNichols of Colorado...
niff-naw (Scotch-Irish dialect)-argument