Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA, however, remains sensitive about its treatment by the news media. The agency is trying to scotch an ad campaign sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Advertising Council that features a picture of the Challenger explosion. Beneath the photograph are the words, "If the press didn't tell us, who would?" Protested NASA Public Affairs Director Shirley Green: "Any suggestion that the public would not have learned the reasons for the accident is totally inaccurate...
...will get a weak one in a stem glass; ask for it in the lounge, and you draw a powerful potion in a highball glass. A gimlet in the bar at lunch had a barely perceptible level ofalcohol, and a meager pouring of premium Scotch was overpowered by ice. In a restaurant that began as a speakeasy and is proud of it, such vagaries are disquieting...
...leaders were released. Ali allowed the 105 passengers and 23 crew members to disembark but held captive the captain, the first officer and the | flight engineer. After six tense hours, the flight engineer ended the siege by hitting the hijacker over the head with a bottle of Teacher's Scotch whisky, fracturing his skull...
...Tehran's northern district. This is where bazaaris, members of Iran's business class, and other people of influence reside, in walled villas along placid, tree- lined streets. Women wear the regulation chador during the day but then reappear in the evening in smart outfits from Paris to drink Scotch and reminisce about visits to Europe. "We have two personalities," explains one woman. But when the casual talk subsides, their businessmen-husbands complain about endless problems. Because hard currency is difficult to obtain, they have trouble buying raw materials abroad. The biggest war concern in Tehran is , the uncertain role...
...nearly $22 of the price. A similar size bottle can be had for only $16 across the border in New York. "There's little stigma attached to smuggling liquor," says William McKissock, a senior Canada Customs antismuggling officer. "It's a lot easier to sell a case of Scotch than a kilo of cocaine...