Word: scotches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...laureled as a peacemaker, De Klerk falls into moods that border on the bellicose. He is irked at his co-recipient and dissatisfied with what he takes to be the world's misunderstanding of himself. Smaller, more delicately featured than he appears in photographs, the President nurses a Scotch and cannot resist complaining. He feels Mandela has upstaged him in Norway and maligned him in general. He, the son and grandson of National Party leaders who helped erect the artifice of apartheid, has traveled further from his heritage than anyone could have predicted. He has dismantled the past and prepared...
...last Saturday night, a Harvard College administrator had to stop and wince. He was standing at the back of Redline with an undergraduate, two architects, and an FM reporter, which was weird enough, but not the problem.The problem was an inch of amber-colored scotch. “This is the strongest drink I’ve ever had,” he said.Well, replied the older architect, 20 years his senior, strong was going to be necessary. They were about to go to a “Saved By the Bell”-themed party in Eliot House?...
...though, since Allied Domecq's brands and distribution channels are comparatively stronger than Seagram's were. "I don't think they'll get anywhere near the level of growth they got with the Seagram business," says Deutsche Bank analyst Graeme Eadie, citing dragging sales of Kahlua liqueur, Ballantine's scotch and Beefeater...
...nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...
Growing up in Appalachia in the 1950s, Brent Kennedy always believed that he was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, just like everyone he knew in his hometown of Wise, Va. But when he saw the film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, he noticed that his family looked more like the Arabs in the movie than the British. Kennedy had inherited his father's light blue eyes, but he had his mother's black hair and in the summer would get a deep tan. He had heard a story about his great-grandfather being barred from voting in the early...