Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorists were told that their demands would not be met, but that they would be given safe conduct out of Thailand if they released the hostages. After an hour of talks, they agreed to these terms and were rewarded with a meal of curried chicken and Scotch whisky supplied by the Thai government. At dawn, they left for Cairo on a special Thai International flight, accompanied by the two ranking Thai negotiators and by Essawi. The Egyptian diplomat, in a rare instance of Arab-Israeli cooperation, had clearly played a key role in saving the hostages' lives. Even rarer...
...contrast, native Caymanians, mostly light brown descendants of Scotch-Irish and black Jamaican settlers, are blessed with uncomplicated lives and, by Caribbean standards, fairly high prosperity. Many islanders work as sailors aboard foreign ships. The islands have no military service, no taxes and only elementary rules of land ownership. The government is run by a British Governor General, Kenneth Crook, and there is no apparent friction between him and native-born administrators. Indeed, the latter are eagerly accepting the new businessmen. "Oh, sure, some people say being a tax haven is just a gimmick," says Finance Minister Vassel Johnson...
...chosen to run in 1969 with the strong support of Norton Simon, who put it together. Soon after, Simon sold out his interest to devote himself to art collecting. Mahoney, now 49, took charge of a loose group of enterprises-Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry soft drinks, Johnnie Walker Scotch and other liquors, Redbook and McCall's magazines, David Susskind's television-production firm (Talent Associates) and even companies that manufacture tin cans...
...reinforces the popular illusion that a drug can be a fast, cheap and magical answer to complex human and social problems." Because methadone is addictive, opponents also find maintenance morally abhorrent and believe that moving an addict from heroin to methadone is like shifting an alcoholic from bourbon to Scotch...
...effects on fetuses became known. Over the years he had reporters follow the litigation between the more than 400 English families involved and the giant Distillers Company Limited, one of whose former subsidiaries distributed thalidomide in Britain. Distillers, maker of the world's bestselling brands of Scotch and gin, made financial settlements with some of the families in 1968. But the majority of the cases dragged on while the deformed children grew toward adolescence and the burden on their parents multiplied...