Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episode should be instructive to a country that has long been beset with doubts about its overall foreign aid program. It is particularly ironic that Washington should have given such a hospitable reception to a big, unexpected outlay in these tight times. Earlier, Congress had been expected to offer stout resistance to an Administration proposal for a $159 million increase, to $6 billion, in economic and military aid worldwide for fiscal 1980. Last week's events probably will not alter that prospect dramatically, but they at least raise the possibility that the nation might be moved to renovate...
...starve them out. The British left under cover of darkness the morning of March 17, 1776. So remember, when you see the cloud of green that envelops Southie as the great day approaches, it's George Washington, not St. Paddy, that the Kellys and Flynns are toasting with stout...
Some states have slapped extremely high taxes on liquor and created state-run monopolies to sell it, at a stout profit. A prime example is Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board, which has become the nation's biggest buyer of alcoholic beverages (last year's total: 11 million cases, worth $280 million wholesale). Before a bottle of liquor goes on sale at any of Pennsylvania's 750 "state stores," the board jacks up the price 48% for its own profit, then adds an 18% "emergency" tax levied decades ago to help victims of the 1936 Johnstown flood, and finally tacks...
...watching Gregory Peck, Mr. Integrity himself, playing Mengele. He sports a nasty little mustache and a stiff posture, and seems to be enjoying his change of face and pace. But no more than Laurence Olivier, no less, relishes playing the old Jew. Wise and crusty, frail of frame but stout of heart, Lieberman is one of those movie character roles that the great actor visibly enjoys doing and that one cannot help enjoying along with...
...Requiem for a Spy), a tantalizing espionage yarn that was no sooner published in Italy last week than it drew critical praise for the authenticity of its Vatican and U.N. settings. Small wonder: the author is Monsignor Alberto Giovannetti, 65, a retired papal diplomat of 30 years standing. The stout, deceptively cherubic Giovannetti was the Holy See's observer to the U.N. for nine years; he obviously knows as much about the murky subterfuge that pervades the corridors of the U.N. as Jacques Cousteau knows about the deep...