Word: zehntausend
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...status tipple in Europe. West Germany imported 504,131 gal. of Scotch in 1959; last year the total was up to 808,919 gal., and the estimates for 1962 run to 1,000,000. "It's the thing to drink if you want to belong to the Oberen Zehntausend [upper ten thousand]," explained a Bonn bartender. Smart Italians ask for their "ooeesky" Us do (straight) or con ghiàccio (on the rocks), and hosts pour their guests hefty slugs in large glasses, which are then nursed for the rest of the evening...
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