Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortify himself, he took a few stiff drinks of whiskey and gin. They were just a bit too stiff. Halfway up the 30-ft. flagpole, Lawson's foot slipped. He fell, heading for certain death, but the climbing stirrup caught his foot. For more than an hour, he hung helplessly upsidedown, 24 floors and a few odd feet above Richmond's shopping district...
...slept until noon the next day, when Eddie McGuire called him. Eddie met him that afternoon and they had some beers, ate dinner at a place near Culver City, drank some whiskey and finally ended up at Casa Mañana. They picked up some girls and danced to Jimmy Lunceford's band. Horn decided he was doing all right-having a swell time for the second night of furlough...
There used to be a weed which was a pest and which would overrun lawns and pastures, etc. It was called "dogfennel." The favorite joke was that the way to get rid of dogfennel was to pour whiskey on it and the Baptists would...
...hand to help him aboard. He wanted to cooperate fully in the search, he said; he was on 'his way to bypassed, isolated Wake Island 300 miles to the south, to evacuate 960 sick and 14 wounded Jap soldiers. He offered his visitors coffee, tea, cider, sake and whiskey-all declined by the Americans...
...bicycles, when obtainable, cost $400. A 1941 Ford sedan sells for $5,000. Nor are the prices in the restaurants and honky-tonk nightclubs any lower: $5 for a small drink of U.S. whiskey...