Word: whiskeys
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Rabbit knew the guy was half-crocked: "Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." But a feeling of unease, of inevitable doom, sank into his gut, and he returned to Brewer. Finally disappointed by a mistress too scared to let Rabbit get through to her, and slightly stirred by the selfless (if misguided) urgings of an Episcopalian minister, he returned to his wife Janice as well...
...Miss American pie, Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye, Singin' 'This'll be the day that...
...Kefauver represented Tennessee and shared the predominating views of that state on segregation, he was not a Progressive Democrat on civil rights legislation; he spent his greatest energy defending the Tennessee Valley Authority from the clutches of private interest, much as other Southern senators would champion tobacco, cotton or whiskey. He lost many of his important legislative battles in Washington, and was even less successful on the national political scene. In 1952 and 1956 he campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President; his only reward was the vice-presidential spot in 1956, from which he and Adlai Stevenson slid...
...oppressors returned again. This time, the fans knew immediately what was going on. Their booing began just where it had left off in the first half. Moreover, the crowd escalated its tactics. Added to the rain of spitballs and coffee cups and programs were more lethal objects like whiskey bottles and beer cans. One whiskey bottle came flying out of the stands and smashed against the big yellow symbol of obstructed vision...
Although Sylvia Plath said to A. Alvarez, a whiskey in hand with one clinking ice cube in it, that she only missed the States for the clinks its abundant ice provided her drinks, clearly there was a tension in her, an almost geographical tension, created by her expatriation. This tension is only one of the ambiguities, the reticences, that stays her newly published collection from the calibre of her late and last poems contained in Ariel...