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...course of the hearing, a whole vocabulary of corruption came to light. A "juice joint" is an afterhours place where liquor is sold. A "flute" is a soda bottle filled with whisky for officers. A "flake" is an arrest made with false evidence in order to shake the man down. An "accommodation collar" is an arrest made on a minor charge in response to pressure from above for a crackdown...
...YORK CITY--Julio Piazza rode back to LaGuardia Airport on the Harvard team bus. The managers gave him a roast beef sandwich, a package of cupcakes, and a can of soda. The Crimson runners were generally friendly to him. Actually, Piazza, who captained Pennsylvania's cross-country team last year, received much better treatment from Harvard than he and his Quaker teammates accorded the injury ridden Crimson harriers yesterday at Van Cortlandt Park...
...impressed with them. I guess you could call me a square. I usually don't go out more than three or four times during a road trip. I do okay with women. But most of the time I'd just rather get me a bottle of soda and a paper, watch some...
...cholera, particularly in West Bengal. A bacterial disease common to India and Pakistan, cholera causes severe vomiting and diarrhea, which bring dehydration and death. Those afflicted can usually be saved by replenishing the bodily fluids through intravenous injections or drinking large doses of a solution of salts, baking soda and glucose. But the flood of refugees is just too great to be handled by beleaguered medical teams...
...been afflicted with ice-creamania. Their per capita consumption, currently at 30 pints a year and still counting, has traditionally led the world. Though the invention of ice cream is usually credited to the Emperor Nero,* it was the U.S. that gave mankind the ice cream cone and the soda. Now there are signs of a fundamental shift in the frozen foundations of the Republic: Americans are beginning to turn a cold shoulder to the three pillars of their forefathers' frigid faith-chocolate, strawberry and vanilla -and flocking to flagrantly concupiscent flavors like Passion Fruit, Kumquat, Papaya, Sparkling Burgundy...