Word: shaken
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...course, the definitive Bond bar scene was the first one, in 1962's Dr. No, when Sean Connery ordered a shaken vodka martini that not only bucked the cocktail conventions of the time but rewrote the liquor guidelines in Fleming's books. "Up until that time in the 1960s, when you said martini, you meant a gin martini ... and gin martinis you don't want to shake because there's a theory that it will bruise the gin as air gets in there and the ice dilutes the drink," Sisson says. "Then Bond ordered a vodka martini, and with vodka...
...European Union on a $25 billion rescue package to restore confidence in Hungary, which had seen its currency plunge in recent weeks. The IMF and European leaders are also worried that, if postcommunist economies collapse, the region could return to the kind of political turmoil it has only recently shaken...
...Calderón's administration has also been shaken up in recent weeks by high-level corruption scandals connected to drug cartels. On Friday, the head of the Federal Preventive Police resigned after detectives questioned him for two days about links to the Sinaloa cartel. Four days earlier, police had announced the arrest of five senior prosecutors for taking bribes of up to $450,000 per month from drug traffickers. Among information leaked to the cartels had been details of U.S. Drug Enforcement agents working in Mexico, officials alleged. The U.S. government has continually expressed support for Calder...
...much is a quantum? Less than a little and next to nothing. Ex.: "In high school I studied a quantum of physics." Or, as James Bond might say, "I'll have a vodka martini, shaken not stirred, and instead of a side of pretzels give me a quantum of solace...
...last hour of trading on Thursday, Oct. 23, 1929, stock prices suddenly plummeted. When the closing bell rang at 3 p.m. people were shaken. No one was sure what had just happened, but that evening provided enough time for fear and panic to set in. When the market opened again the next day, prices plunged with renewed violence. Stock transactions in those days were printed on ticker tape, which could only produce 285 words a minute. Thirteen million shares changed hands - the highest daily volume in the exchange's history at that point - and the tape didn't stop running...