Word: tumbler
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...working out one day, I had been working evenings and making $18 a week, or something like that, and a fellow came along and asked me if I wanted to join up with him, said he just came in from the West, and needed a good tumbler and saw me tumbling down at the gym, working out, and said you're just what I need... to put an act together. That's not working I said. I have some kind of a job. I asked him how much money was in it, and he said, Ah, you can make...
...Black Martini (dry vermouth and blackberry brandy), the Brave Bull (tequila and Kahlua) and the Blue Blazer (mulled brandy, Southern Comfort and water). Washingtonians are drinking a new depth charge called the Kraatz No. 1 Special, invented by Hawaiian Businessman Donald Kraatz. The recipe: pour an almost-full tumbler of Tanqueray's gin over ice, add minute but equal amounts of Schweppe's quinine water and Rose's lime juice...
Almost as light as a highball tumbler, silent as a hummingbird's flight-yet with twice the wallop of a .45-the Gyrojet rocket handgun sounds like the secret agent's dream. Costing only $1 to massproduce, with a mechanism so simple and rugged that it can be fired under water and requires practically no maintenance, the gun-as advertised-could prove an equally deadly weapon for combat troops...
...Each morning at 5:30, Ramoo rises and trots off to the village well to bathe himself with buckets of lukewarm, silty water, then returns to his clay-walled hut and squats on the cow-dung floor for breakfast: a thick chapatty (wheat pancake) and a brass tumbler of scalding black tea. Ramoo owns only two bullocks, and with them he plods across his barren acres, dragging a steel-slivered plow designed in prehistory by some Indian prototype who faced the same harsh, crumbling earth. In a year, he raises scarcely enough to feed his bullocks. For lunch Ramoo eats...
...once wrote on the art of loafing, Humorist Nathaniel Benchley (Robert's son) recommended: "Do nothing, but appear busy." His latest novel heeds that advice. Assorted human beings and ghosts scurry frantically about a haunted house in New England. One ghostly incident is followed by another-a flying tumbler, a fleeting shadow, a disembodied goose. Assuming that it is a whale of a joke to have a ghost sink an old curmudgeon's opulent yacht docked outside the house, Benchley lets the ghost sink a second one. The ghosts, to be sure, have more life than the characters...