Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweated through. Actually, it hadn't been too bad. Not bad at all. In the beginning, hitting the books at night had proved difficult, and Vag had found himself headed for Boston every other night in the first few weeks of the term. The nightly fifth-of-whiskey-and-a-woman routine gets ingrained after three years. But now, quite without any conscious plan, he was working, working hard, for the first time in his life...
Dear Diary. In London, Actress Hermione Gingold discreetly overlooked the theft of her ration book, furs, dresses and whiskey, appealed for the return of her diary, because "it has telephone numbers essential to my plans...
...Germans' human dam at Saint-Lo. Bradley was lifted then to command of the Twelfth Army Group. Once again the spectacular Patton got the headlines and the popular applause, lancing through France with his Third Army tanks. But it was Bradley, scowling over his maps, mixing an occasional whiskey old-fashioned with orange marmalade, plodding through the churned-up battlefields of France, who held the destiny of U.S. soldiers in his steady hands...
...admittedly a terrible thing, so were faceless men from outer space, microbes of all sizes and the possibility that the earth might hit a star, and they had all been in the American Weekly years ago. Whether you got killed by an atom bomb, an automobile, poison gas, poison whiskey, a blockbuster or a spear, you were dead and probably didn't know what hit you. So why talk about it, brother...
...tireless joiner, public speaker and partygoer, Palmer Hoyt gets around like no other Oregonian. He drinks his whiskey and gobbles his vitamin pills with equal gusto. His appetite for civic wheelhorsing has never been sated. He helped bring Henry Kaiser to Portland. As Oregon's first War Bond director, he put the state at the head of the U.S. in sales. His methods became the pattern for the national bond drives. In 1943 Hoyt slaved for six months as OWI's domestic director, fought hard to keep war news flowing free from needless and petty censorship...