Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Socially, the Benedicts are an example of the conservative values associated with farmers; their life-style would seem spartan to a city family with their assets. Fran delights in giving small dinner parties for neighbors?at which Pat may down a Scotch or two, though his regular drink is beer. But many evenings and weekends are devoted to TV or simply family conversation. The Benedicts are Roman Catholics and regular churchgoers; when St. Cecilia's Church in Sabin burned to the ground two years ago, Pat was elected to help supervise construction of a new building. He is close with...
Herb Pomeroy--Scotch 'n Sirloin...
...DRINK. I concurred in the general consensus and elbowed and gouged my way up to the bar in vintage Ed King, clip-'em-on-the-sweep fashion. The bar-tender, a smallish man unaccustomed to such mass displays of joviality, informed me that Scotch and soda was going for $1.90 that night. Ed King, I realized, would run a frugal administration, having already cut back on essential social services. I settled for ginger...
...Proposition 13 and the death penalty (cheering for the death penalty is, I decided, a uniquely American political pastime) and abortion funding cut-offs. Maybe--but it didn't matter that night, as I headed across the street, passing a happy soul weaving under the influence of dollar-ninety Scotch. A soft breeze carried with it a few more strains of the B.C. fight song, but I decided right then that I didn't want to learn the words...
...combined with corn syrup, confectioners' sugar and just about any flavoring and color imaginable, chew-it-yourselfers can concoct a 25-ft. length of bubble gum from a $2, 2-lb. package of mix-about half the price of the manufactured product. Says POW! Entrepreneur Fred Starkey: "If scotch is your favorite drink, flavor it with scotch. If you like fruit cocktail, use that, or use Kool-Aid." He adds with a nervous chuckle: "I've had feedback that the kids are putting grass in it." Most gum kits are sold by mail from his headquarters in Arlington...