Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money is not likely to play much of a part in funding any election campaigns. The $6 million authorized by the Administration for handouts to Italian moderates is small change compared with past contributions to Italian parties by U.S. corporations, labor unions and other sources-"A bottle of Scotch at Christmas from Uncle Sam," as one diplomat put it. (It is also considerably less than the $27 million the Contmunists reportedly received from the Soviet embassy for campaign expenses in the 1972 general election.) Anti-Communist Italian politicians testily denied that any CIA contributions were-or would be-accepted...
They cheer le cowboy in le western, eat le snack (pronounced znag) or le sandwich in le living room or le drugstore, and sip un cocktail or un Scotch sur les rocks at le party au le weekend. Now, in a new effort to knockouter "the most obvious instances of language degradation and to protect the citizen from possible harm," a new law, Number 75-1349, forbids the use of foreign words in advertising, business contracts, TV and radio programs and the like...
Distillers claim that they are trying to serve the changing tastes of U.S. drinkers, who for a generation have been shifting away from the stronger native spirits, like 100-proof bourbon (still generally available), and buying more of the lighter-tasting Scotch and Canadian whiskies. Sam Chilcote, a spokesman for the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S., calls the move toward lower proof "a marketing decision reflecting ... preference habits of consumers," and Carmel Tintle, vice president for corporate affairs for American Distilling, refers to it as part of a "trend toward moderation." All this may sound eminently reasonable...
Even before the 8:00 a.m. train has left South Station, a well-built middle-aged man draws a bottle of scotch from the pouch of his Harvard sweatshirt and swallows the first mouthful...
...train approaches New Haven its passengers become increasingly less sober and more boisterous. There is scattered singing and a few people are dancing. The vices are what one would expect for the Harvard-Yale game; alumni drink $12-a-bottle scotch at the front of the train, students smoke $35-an-ounce marijuana at the back. When the train arrives, cabs and buses wait to whisk denizens of the game to Yale's campus, and to the Yale Bowl where the game will be played. In Yale Bowl parking lots old friends gather to sip champagne and pick at delicacies...