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Molotov cocktail
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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Mo·lo·tov cock·tail
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a crude incendiary device typically consisting of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and with a means of ignition. The production of similar grenades was organized by Vyacheslav Molotov during World War II.
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Cocktails from Cuba lend themselves to variety.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 8/25/2003; ; 700+ words
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Cocktails come back with intoxicating rush
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 8/25/1996; ; 700+ words
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Cocktails, anyone?
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 8/23/2001; ; 700+ words
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COCKTAILS COMEBACK A TASTE TEST SHOWS SOME VINTAGE MIXED DRINKS DESERVE A SECOND LOOK.(FLAVOR)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 12/29/1999; ; 700+ words
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With cocktails, keeping it fresh is key
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times (IL); 6/24/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...guests with signature cocktails made at home. Nothing...use a pre-made cocktail mix. Just try to...is your signature cocktail, after all. Extra...veggies make great cocktails. They are full...enhancements to most cocktails. Herbs are best...Open your mind to cocktail sweeteners ...
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Cocktail museum mixes fun and facts
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 8/24/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 08-24-2005 Cocktail museum mixes fun and facts -- Founders...antique liquor bottles. Add art deco cocktail shakers, vintage swizzle sticks and...The result: the Museum of the American Cocktail. The brainchild of highbrow alcohol...
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Cocktail Experience goes with a bang! ; Food&Drink
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail; 6/5/2008; ; 662 words
; ...shake and slurp cocktails like a professional...chocolate and cream cocktail). That vital...Cruise's famous Cocktails and Dreams cocktail bar just yet as...in the final 'cocktail off' by a friend...back quite a few cocktails but it had been...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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A COCKTAIL RENAISSANCE: LOCAL MIXOLOGISTS FIND THAT OLD-SCHOOL DRINKS ARE TOPS AGAIN.(CNY)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 7/29/2009; 700+ words
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Cocktail of choice, at least for some
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 7/18/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...arbiter of New Orleans cocktails, but the anise flavor...of being the official cocktail of New Orleans, the...fizz is a wonderful cocktail. It's refreshing...most labor-intensive cocktails around. Legend has...job was to shake the cocktail for longer than could...
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Cocktail craze stirs Britain's young
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/10/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...bars such as TGI Fridays, specialist cocktail bars, "happy hours" that capture...workers and the emergence of bottled cocktails have all helped to promote the "cocktail culture". Last year cocktails such as Mule, Metz and V2 were the...
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Cocktails
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
COCKTAILS COCKTAILS. Ever since America invented the cocktail, at the beginning of the nineteenth...food mixtures such as fruit cocktails, and pharmaceutical combinations...first known definition of a cocktail appeared in an 1806 Hudson...
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Cocktail Party
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...or bookstore. Cocktails, wine, and...contemporary cocktail parties may in...along with their cocktails. Friends came...habit, and the cocktail party was born...consumption of cocktails. At contemporary cocktail parties, traditional...
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Brompton's Cocktail
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Brompton's Cocktail In 1896 the English surgeon Herbert...and other variants of the "Brompton Cocktail." A survey of teaching and general...means of pain relief. The Brompton Cocktail became popular in the United States...
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cocktail
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...lemonade, or cream: [as adj. ] cocktail parties. ∎ a mixture...dangerous or unpleasant in its effects: a cocktail of drugs that inhibits replication of...meal as an hors d'oeuvre: a shrimp cocktail.
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Cocktail Party, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Cocktail Party, The, verse play by T.S. Eliot...produced in 1949, published in 1950. At his cocktail party, Edward Chamberlayne tries to conceal...quest of faith. Two years later at a cocktail party given by Edward and Lavinia for...
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