Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood of the two men became ever more amiable. When Nixon twitted Tito for ordering a Scotch and soda at a morning meeting, Tito, 78, replied: "When you get older, whisky is much better for the blood than milk." Tito even changed his own plans and decided to accompany Nixon on a visit to Kumrovec, where Tito and his 14 brothers and sisters (none of whom survive) were all born in the same bed in a white stucco house. Asking Tito to walk among the villagers while photographers and newsmen watched, Nixon said: "We've got to get this...
...anticipate familiar challenges I felt that a stimulating balance would prevail. "Are the blacks gonna picket me?" Styron asked on arrival. My God, I hoped not. "They picket me everywhere I go," he said a bit wearily. We passed a pleasant afternoon doing equal damage to a fifth of Scotch and our respective livers...
...record. Half of official Cambridge became angry over not being invited to private bashes for my two old heroes, and you must here understand that in Cambridge parties are serious matters, indeed. False rumors made the rounds that I had poisoned Styron through dropping LSD into his Scotch; another popular lie ran that Mailer had engaged in pre-dawn fisticuffs with this one or that. Styron, following his sobering experience, has initiated no further contact; Mailer wrote a note apologizing for "my tongue sticking to my mouth," and alluded to a subpar performance when I next...
When Martha Mitchell's runaway tongue provoked demands that Husband John silence her (TIME, Dec. 5), the Attorney General responded with the bemused suggestion that she speak henceforth in Swahili. Last week, his glacial restraint thawed by two Scotch-and-waters and the gentle prodding of Kandy Stroud, an attractive blonde reporter for Women's Wear Daily, John Mitchell topped even Martha at her loquacious best...
Hussein had been a playboy prince who liked to drive fast cars, chase women, drink too much Scotch in the bar of Amman's old Philadelphia Hotel. In his first days as King, there was scant improvement. His idea of a fun evening was to disguise himself as a taxi driver, pick up customers in Amman and ask them what they thought of their new monarch. Hussein preferred blondes, but in 1955 he married a Hashemite cousin named Dina, several years his elder. She bore him only a daughter, and after two years Hussein quietly divorced her. He soon...