Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drinking, that the W didn't stand for Wild, that the rumors are overblown. (Bush now jokes about the stories: "I bought cocaine at my dad's Inauguration," he facetiously told a writer for Texas Monthly.) Among Bush's Midland crowd, the favorite mind-altering substances were beer and whiskey. And most people say Bush's consumption was not especially gaudy...
When Hennefeld is not organizing mass protests or negotiating with a Harvard attorney on sweatshop issues, the Brooklyn, N.Y. native can be found at WHRB, where he hosts a blues program on Sunday mornings. He also plays guitar for the local Whiskey Moan...
Though six states--Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington--have voted to legalize medicinal marijuana, federal law still requires them to prosecute any wheelchair-bound granny smoking a bong. But they aren't doing so, and that has federal drug czar Barry McCaffrey muttering about a new "Whiskey Rebellion," the unsuccessful 1794 farmer's revolt against federal liquor taxes...
...Short of the Catholic Church and maybe whiskey," Murphy added with a chuckle, "nothing can approximate the glory of Ireland like the mesmerizing sound of the bagpipe...
...Yosemite is Virginia City, Nev., where Samuel Clemens adopted his nom de plume. The conventional wisdom is that "Mark Twain" comes from the riverman's term for water two fathoms deep. Joe Curtis, owner of Mark Twain's Bookstore, offers an alternative theory. Clemens used to order his whiskey two shots at a time in Virginia City, telling the bartender to put it on his tab: "Mark me for twain [two]." Twain wrote for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in the early 1860s, chronicling the town's gold- and silver-fueled rise. His recollections of that time also appear...