Word: vermouths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dessert in a single paper-and-foil container. Dow Chemical has developed a packet made of plastic, paper and foil that holds individual portions of butter. But it was left to Allied Chemical to come up with a plastic container shaped like a martini glass. Inside: gin and vermouth...
Research began when the scientists administered their medicine (formula: 1¾ oz. dry gin + ¼ oz. vermouth + 1 olive). Tests ended "at saturation," when nobody cares. The conclusion: "A linear relationship of 2 db increase of tolerance per martini until the third cocktail became apparent. At this point, another physiological condition gradually occurs within the subject, causing the tolerance to increase on a cumulative basis of 4 db per cocktail until saturation...
...embraces boys, Shakespeare ("fabulous"), an avant-garde poetry instructor, folk singing, atomic protest ("Free Bertrand Russell!"). She comes home on vacation a cool sophisti-cat, all burnished claws and no filial purr, and asks what kind of gin Daddy uses in his martinis. As Dad turns the color of vermouth, Mom remarks sagely that Mollie will "never again be as old as she is right...
...France, the West's tough, new line is referred to pointedly as "the American policy." Though De Gaulle's sweeping powers have virtually reduced the French people to kibitzers, a nuclear war over Berlin is unthinkable to the pragmatic Frenchman sipping vermouth in his sidewalk cafe. With the French army tied up in Algeria, the thought of even a limited-war tactic such as driving an armored column through to a blockaded Berlin frightens the French, who are only 150 miles from Russian armies in East Germany. "To deliberately create such an international crisis in the thermonuclear...
Late in the afternoons, Painter made the martinis (while Conrad "held the vermouth a bit downwind"). With Painter playing the harmonica and Conrad the guitar, the children sang till suppertime and then climbed into their sleeping bags. On other days, the Painters and Conrads walked among the ponderosa pine and the aspen trees, past berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water...