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...that its record is the best ever conceived by man. Meanwhile, smaller record companies are making their choice. Capital has joined Victor; and Mercury, Cetra, and Concert Hall have gone along with Columbia. Decca, a key company, has decided to stand by for the present and watch its competitors slug...
Behind the high mahogany bar in Lima's Hotel Bolivar, the bartender poured a slug of water-clear liquor into a silver shaker, added lime juice, sugar, beaten white of egg, and ice, shook hard, then poured the mixture into a small glass. When Angostura had been sprinkled on the top, another pisco sour was ready for -the pre-luncheon crowd filling up Lima's best-known meeting place...
...Eighth Army "Desert Rats," a melting pot of Britons, Australians, Indians, Free French, New Zealanders and others, were never defeated in battle after Monty took command. His method sounded simple: refuse to move until every detail of the battle plan is in place; then slug it out to the finish-chiefly with line bucks but with an end run when necessary. To a flashy quarterback like Rommel, such tactics must have seemed relentlessly dull, relentlessly successful...
...train stop named Porcupine the gang piled off for a drink of "redeye" at a makeshift trackside bar. Not to be shamed, Dean ordered a slug, gulped it down. Up it came. With his companions, the rector's son ran shakily for the train, missed the handrail, fell and knocked himself out. Someone on the platform pulled him clear of the wheels. The train rolled off with the gang and his baggage. It took him several days to catch up, but a determined Dean arrived at the north woods camp at last, to spend a summer learning to smoke...
...there are even a couple of inscrutable references to the Russians. The role of Vincent Price left this observer completely baffled. He run guns to the natives, helped out former SS men, and was in general a sort of catch-all character. The last thing he caught was a slug in the head and two in the chest. Good riddance...