Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women, who generally demand a "light" liquor. No one can even predict with certainty how light whisky will taste until it has matured a legal minimum of four years; in its present unripened state it somewhat resembles whisky-flavored vodka. Prices will range between the cost of a popular Scotch like Johnnie Walker Red Label and an inexpensive blend like Imperial. Some new brands will appear, but many of the larger companies will bottle their new drinks under old, familiar labels...
...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...
Thus, when I answered that it was not difficult to intellectually intimidate David Reisman, all conversation at the party stopped. I could see the eyes of the brilliant young man in front of me dilate. I watched him choke slightly on his scotch as he feebly mumbled something about not being aware of that. My only way out of such an impasse was to go into the bathroom of the small suite with the hope that the discussion which I had stopped would resume by the time I had refilled my glass with ice and scotch...
...been without a regular outlet for his art since the World Journal Tribune expired in 1967. Now 68 and with more than 10,000 cartoons to his credit in a 44-year career, the breezy, booze-loving Mullin is disappearing by inches, like a bottle of the finest Scotch whisky...
Burr refused to comment on any of the Bok speculation last night. He did scotch one rumor, however, that a provost would be named on the same day as the president. "If all goes according to plan, we won't be naming two or three men together on the same day." he said...