Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five minutes a half hundred reporters, photographers, British military and naval attaches filled the diner. At 11:58 Winston Churchill waddled in, waved, moved to the middle of the car. His left hand clutched a tall whiskey-&-soda...
Skeleton-thin (760 mi. long, 30 to 150 mi. wide) Baja California, like the west coast of Mexico proper, has no adequate Pacific defenses. Its once bootleg-whiskey-rich northern town of Ensenada is a scant 8 1 motor miles from the U.S. naval base at San Diego. The area is extremely vulnerable, despite its deserts and mountains...
Among these historical drives and personalities Author Carmer sets his fictional machinery in motion. Hero Nathan Hart, as a fugitive Whiskey Rebel and amateur portrait painter, leads readers on a Cook's tour of the whole valley civilization, from the Williamson mansion to the Indian village of Squawkie Hill. He also has three love affairs: with The Friend's pet priestess, with patrician Eleanor Fitzhugh, and with Catherine O'Bail, whom at long last, despite her Indian blood, he marries in defiance of the Valley gentry...
...species proved to be new. They were stung by urchins, morays, anemones, stingrays and stinging worms. Their hands, cut by barnacles, became first a welter of sores and then horny-callused. They caught and ate tuna, skipjack and sierra, tried unsuccessfully to eat a turtle; they drank beer and whiskey; they bathed by jumping over the side; they had a wonderful time...
...Times. In dry Oklahoma City, a man cheerfully paid a $662 fine for possessing un-tax-paid whiskey. "The price has jumped from $10 to $14 a case," he beamed. "I can afford a little setback...