(1) In a nearby hut a 65-year-old man sucking ajon (millet-based hooch) through a hollow twig told of the calamities he had lived through recently.
(2) Los Angeles County Museum of Art , opens 4 October Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer With more than 70 paintings, from portraits by the titular superstars to lesser-known works by Pieter de Hooch and Jan Steen, this years-in-the-making show examines the Dutch Golden Age through the lens of social standing.
(3) You can almost smell the Kickers, the Hooch and the episodes of This Life.
(4) People were smoking heroin in the open in the yard, bubbling up hooch in wheelie bins, taking ecstasy.
(5) Not far away Stephen Edau, 19, head boy and teetotal father of two, dreams of becoming a doctor but wishes his mother would give up making the hooch that helps pay for his education.
(6) The emergence of the more toxic PMA following the so-called ‘success’ in reducing MDMA production is just one of many examples of how prohibition of one drug leads to greater harm from an alternative that is developed to overcome the block.” Nutt, the Edmond J Safra professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London , compared the situation to the rise in demand for more poisonous hooch after alcohol was prohibited in the US during the 1920s and the rise in production and injecting of heroin after smoking opium was banned.
(7) 9.44pm BST Prohibition's Day Off In case vicariously touring Chicago with Benji doesn't quite have the delinquent kick you're looking for, two classics of the 80s show the city from three very different points of view: students playing hooky, gangsters brewing hooch, and the authority figures trying to catch them.
Moonshine
Definition:
(n.) A month.
(n.) The light of the moon.
(n.) Hence, show without substance or reality.
(n.) A preparation of eggs for food.
(a.) Moonlight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Risk of ESRD was significantly related to phenacetin or acetaminophen consumption (odds ratio(OR) = 2.66), moonshine consumption (OR = 2.43), a family history of renal disease (OR = 9.30); and regular occupational exposures to solvents (OR = 1.51) or silica (OR = 1.67).
(2) At the bar, we sit next to Dylan Laurino, @juicymerchguy , who insists we try malort – a local moonshine made from grapefruit.
(3) Lead poisoning arising from "moonshine whiskey" drinking has been associated with a rise in plasma renin activity.
(4) He explored moonshine – as they all did, except for Tom."
(5) A patient with chronic renal failure, a strong history of moonshine abuse, and excessive urinary lead excretion had clinical and laboratory measurements compatible with combined hyperkalemic distal renal tubular acidosis and the syndrome of selective aldosterone deficiency.
(6) He has his first drink of moonshine, his first kiss.
(7) Renin activity and aldosterone were evaluated relative to potassium levels and lead intoxication in 33 patients with a history of "moonshine" ingestion.
(8) But Bernard Jenkin, the former shadow defence secretary, sided with Lawson, saying it was "moonshine" for No 10 to assume Cameron could reform the EU.
(9) Miners long used moonshine, marijuana and prescription pills to cope with the stresses and pain of work underground.
(10) He has made important contributions to many branches of pure maths, such as group theory, number theory and geometry and, with collaborators, has also come up with wonderful-sounding concepts like surreal numbers, the grand antiprism and monstrous moonshine.
(11) The use of automobile radiators containing lead-soldered parts in the illicit distillation of alcohol (i.e., "moonshine") is an important source of lead poisoning among persons in some rural Alabama counties.
(12) They were more likely to be black and have gout than those denying moonshine use.
(13) And Jebediah means you’re just a complete cracker running a moonshine still in Dalton, Georgia.” Even before Jeb Bush , the name comes freighted with assumptions, like that you’re a hillbilly, or from a super religious family.
(14) They run a modestly successful bootlegging racket and are respected and feared in their community but, with Prohibition-era America thirsty for as much moonshine as their makeshift stills can churn out, they could be achieving so much more.
(15) The day began with an architectural boat tour, and finished with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and grapefruit moonshine that tastes like garbage.
(16) He said: forget for now the moonshine of themes; you’re only just beginning to learn how to read a book.
(17) This was the iconography.” By the time Johnson arrived a different image had taken hold – that of the anti-modern, moonshine swilling, gun toting, backwards “hillbilly”.
(18) Nearly two thirds of 200 male hypertensive veterans surveyed in Philadelphia admitted to past ingestion of illicit alcoholic beverages (moonshine), many drinking it recently, and in the North.
(19) None of these patients had known histories of occupational or other potential sources of lead exposure, but all reported recent histories of moonshine ingestion.
(20) The clinical and pathological findiing in an adult with lead encephalopathy due to moonshine consumption are presented.