Word: ales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awakes feeling cramps. One woman in the recovery room is vomiting into a paper bag, while others are crying or moaning. Stacy wants to get out quickly: "I can't listen to that." To bring up her blood-sugar level, a staffer gives her a cup of ginger ale, some Lorna Boone cookies and a Tylenol painkiller. They make her feel nauseated again. But soon Stacy and her mother are back on the street. The fresh air revives her. "I feel light," she says, "so good...
...shining, the quarter is almost over and an enterprising band of seniors at the University of California at Davis is merrily quaffing homemade ale amidst the beakers and burners of a science lab. But wait. One of them is throwing his brew down the nearest sink. Has the ale addled his head? Have the suds gone stale...
Neither. The group is really hard at work. They are part of an 18-member malting and brewing science lab class that has just tasted and discarded a conditioned-in-the-bottle ale. The only college course on brewing in the U.S., the lab comes under the auspices of Davis' food-science department, itself part of the university's highly touted agricultural college. Beer posters adorn the walls and beer bottles crowd the shelves, but brewing is no frothy business here. Only students who have taken biochemistry, microbiology and the like can take the fall lecture course...
...Boston worsened. Two power blackouts cut off electricity for 100,000 people at the height of the storm. In some working-class neighborhoods, looting broke out. Long lines formed at the few food markets that could open, and shelves were quickly stripped bare of milk, bread, potato chips, ginger ale-almost anything edible. Not until two days after the storm, when the major highways were finally cleared, could the city be resupplied with food...
...spokesman for 33 Dunster St., the Oxford Ale House and Cronin's all said that they were very busy Friday night...