Word: sloe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...store. He manages to escape his new owner there as well as his fate as a windshield ornament. The rest of the story follows his efforts to get back to the little girl with the oranges that will make her well. Along the way the puppy encounters a sloe-eyed South American ballerina and her raffishly murderous boyfriend; he is betrayed by his best friend, a stuffed cat, and he wanders into a devil's convocation of puppets and paper dolls straight out of a Heronymus Bosch painting. The special effects save a perilously sentimental story line and everything comes...
...guys down at the West Side were pretty shady looking characters, especially the Tech students. I remember once seeing them ahead of me while out doing some road-work, when suddenly a group of about four disappeared into the bushes. Later I learned they had a pint of sloe...
...smuggler king who, like Dr. No, runs his crooked empire from a posh suite crammed with electronic marvels, secret panels designed for quick getaways and strong rooms filled with gold and jewels. Invariably, he drinks the finest Scotch, drives a fast foreign car and has a passionate, sloe-eyed mistress. The Indian government has decided that the stereotype is a little too true to be good...
...already mobbed. The crowd has taken all the tables in sight and is beginning to spill out into the Swingers Lounge, a dining area where the more sedate can come to eat and watch the goings-on. Stewardesses and secretaries sit in forced conversation with one another, nursing their "sloe screws" (sloe gin and orange juice) and "thigh openers" (vodka gimlets) and feigning unawareness of the males all about. Behind them, hulking young men in double-knit suits or bright cardigan sweaters lounge against the wall, cradling bottles of beer and looking over the pickings. "I've never seen...
Married. Nancy Kwan, 31, sloe-eyed Eurasian actress who soared to stardom in The World of Susie Wong and Flower Drum Song; and David Giler, 26, Hollywood scriptwriter, whose most recent credit, if that is the term, is Myra Breckinridge; she for the second time, he for the first; in a civil ceremony in Carson City...