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Word: ales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Webster's dictionary, an alewife is a small North American fish, resembling a shad, or a woman who operates an ale house. In Massachusetts, however, Alewife is also the name of a parkway running through the western part of Somerville. That's where the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority (MBTA) is going to extend the Red Line from Harvard Square by 1982 or 1983, if everything goes according to schedule. Lucky for the Class of '82, things won't be too bad in the Square until March or April, when the heavy construction is scheduled to begin. But just...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: A Not-So-Rapid Transit Extension | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...only $49.70 this summer. The round-trip price includes visits to uncharted villages from Devonshire to Derbyshire, scenes of London rarely glimpsed by the natives, a vintage assemblage of odds and sods and intellects, and carte blanche to the last remaining pubs that purvey strong ale, stalwart beef and susceptible barmaids. Best of all, you don't have to leave an American beach to get there; the no-wait, wingless voyage can be booked at a bookstore. The package consists of six new novels of mystery, crime and suspense by English authors. Each proves again that in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Best off British Crime | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Joker--at the Oxford Ale House, Church St., Friday through Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...even when he rattles on about the good and the true, Gardner never pontificates, never becomes self-righteous. Even when what he says sounds like it would suit a preacher among the unbaptized, his manner remains that of the elderly raconteur, sitting by the fire with a mug of ale and a pipe...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Muddled Morals | 5/3/1978 | See Source »

...lead over Vardon. Vardon finished with a 77 and Ray shot a 79. After the monumental victory, which has since been christened "the shot heard round the world," Ouimet went out and celebrated by downing a drink called a "horse's neck," a concoction of lemon juice and ginger ale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Joins The Club | 4/21/1978 | See Source »

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