Word: beechwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here by the fire we defy frost and storm; We are warm; And we have our heart's desire; For here we're good fellows and the beechwood and the bellows...
...minute. The immense lagering cellars, where the fermentation goes on for 21 days, must be airtight to keep out all airborne bacteria. Finally, Anheuser-Busch treats its beer with a time-honored process that no other major national brewer uses. In glass-lined tanks floored with sterile beechwood chips, the beer is injected with a freshly yeasted brew known as "krausen," which starts a secondary, month-long fermentation to carbonate Budweiser naturally. Some brewers argue that krausening is an expensive, old-fashioned process which does little good. But Anheuser-Busch's brewmasters insist that it results in a fresher...
...Istrian sand is no longer used; instead a fine white sand is imported from France to give a purer, more easily worked glass. But as before, even-burning Yugoslavian beechwood goes into the furnaces to keep the glass at an average 800° C. A master can complete a small animal figure in less than ten seconds, yet it still takes a full day for the large pieces. And sometimes even the most expert craftsman watches his hours of labor shiver into fragments as the glass cools...
...Road. In Beechwood, Wis., Mrs. Joseph Hann bruised her leg in a collision involving a car, a truck, and the tavern in which she was sitting when she was knocked off her bar stool...
...half during the semi-final match for the West Sussex Polo Cup, the Royal Navy's Admiral Earl Mountbatten and his nephew Prince Philip took time out to chat with Countess Mountbatten (see cut). Final score: Beechwood 3½, Royal Navy 1, with Philip scoring the navy's one & only goal...