Word: scotches
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...consumers will rarely be as much as 10%. The surcharge is imposed on wholesale prices, which are seldom more than half of retail prices. Moreover, many importers and foreign manufacturers will be willing to swallow part of the surcharge to keep their products competitive. For example, Manhattan importers of Scotch whisky forecast that shelf prices would go up about 100 per fifth...
...church authority, I have this to ask: How many priests have ever been disciplined for their racist and condemning attitudes toward Mexicans and blacks? How many priests and bishops would feel as much at ease sharing the bread of la raza as they would eating steak and drinking Scotch with the growers and their allies...
...clinging like mussels to the surrounding green-brown hills, deserted Alcatraz with wildflowers growing on its rocky sides, and the San Francisco hills covered with white and pastel buildings. In the evenings, passengers see the same splendors in a different light, their perceptions sharpened by tasty 750 martinis, fine Scotch or champagne...
...Adams House serves a fine scotch broth and a passable clam chowder. It was over a bowl of the latter that the young Radcliffe woman, fresh off the boat from the 'Cliffe (a small girls' college in Cambridge) met the young Harvard man, up for a day from the Yard (an esoteric prison camp, not to be confused with the expression "thirty feet long and a Yard wide," in which yard refers to a small green mammal). 'Hello," he said, "do you live here...
...CLASSMATE lunged frantically into the carpeted splendor of the Essex Country Club locker room, just in time to pitch the blending of a New England boiled lobster, a day's worth of bloody marys, gin and tonics, and scotch-on-the-rocks, and a schedule of tennis, golf, and after-dinner dancing squarely into the hopper. At first, he only groaned; his hands anchored to the enamel circle, he prayed for his heart to fall back into first without tearing out the transmission. And then he began with methodic attention to wipe from his face the vomit and sweat...