Word: ale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little stream that dives under the boardwalk runs very loud, and sudsy from lapping across downed trees. Where the water can be seen from under its head of foam, it ripples dark brown, the color of strong ale...
...basing all specifics in his work on personal experience. Morgan shows that many of Maugham's works consist almost entirely of events or characters lifted directly from his life: like his character Alroy Kear, for example, based on Hugh Walpole, Maugham's friend until the publication of Cakes and Ale--so thinly disguised, as well as unflattering, that those involved sued Maugham for libel...
...section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young man he finds shades of the self-serving social climber Maugham wrote about when he depicted Hugh Walpole as Alroy Kear in Cakes and Ale...
...including some of the most fertile farm land in the Jordan Valley. In many instances, land has been seized in the name of defense. A $300 million housing project for 20,000 Israelis is currently being built on the mountaintop of Ma'ale Adumin, thereby completing the "encirclement" of Jerusalem that successive Israeli governments have claimed as a strategic priority since the 1967 war. In other cases, little effort is made to justify expansionism on security groundsfor example, the recent Cabinet decision approving the right of Israelis to settle in the Arab city of Hebron...
...PRETTY SIMPLE, but two nights talking politics over Moosehead Ale in Farmington's leading bar robs politics of much of its complexity. In northern New Hampshire, politics is a little like ice-racing. Success lies in avoiding the spinning crashes, escaping from the crunching wrecks, collecting the most superficial dents...