Word: usquebaugh
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...Whiskey and freedom gang the-gither," declared Robert Burns-a poet and drinking man who turned out many a verse against Scotland's "Act of Excyse." Usquebaugh distillers in Scotland and Ulster generally felt the way Burns did. In the early 1700s most of them migrated to the American colonies, bringing their whisky-making tools and techniques with them. By 1750, moonshine was a necessity of life on the frontier, and brewing corn whisky was a major industry. From fusty books and firsthand interviews with oldtimers, with many facts and much affection, Joseph Dabney has put together a splendid...
...lines calculated to make dinner with the Macbeths and Banquo's ghost seem like afternoon tea. And because he had been a ranker who had risen from the gutters of Glasgow, he is a figure of awe and almost superstitious regard to the kilted men who swill their usquebaugh and sweat to master pibrochs (variations on bagpipe tunes). As he warms his "celebrated bottom" before the mess fire (nothing, it should be said to satisfy Sassenach and U.S. curiosity, is worn beneath the kilt), it seems no harm can come...
...posed by the German threat befalls them: their supply of liquor is cut off. This evokes an almost island-wide form of the sickness unto death, until Providence, in the form of a floating distillery, intervenes. A ship loaded with 50,000 cases of what the islanders call Usquebaugh, the Water of Life, hangs up on rocks near the island...
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