Word: beer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...senior member. "You are very kind," said Sihanouk. "Thank you very much." Then, after a two-hour bus tour of the capital, the men were treated to lunch at La Taverne, one of the city's finest French restaurants. (Among the highlights was their first taste of beer since July 17-a Chinese brew called Tsingtao.) That afternoon, they watched a four-hour pageant as the Prince's guests, and as a special bonus Sihanouk later sent them two cases of Cambodian liquor...
...trouble with seating house committee chairmen, members say, is that they are out of the mainstream of Harvard life. They're the ones who are always talking about whether coffee ice cream will sell in the House grill and about how to increase the attendance at those beer-swamped dances. One clear argument against seating house committee chairmen is that they're simply too busy with routine, but necessary, house chores. If the HUC is really anxious to end its super house committee image, dumping the house committee chairmen seems mandatory...
Even a parent can't serve his own minors, the officer on duty said, although he realized that "like the French people or the Italian people who grow up with a little wine and beer--it's good for the blood...
...like fog over the city from early morning until late evening. Cinemas were packed, and hard rock boomed from juke boxes at bars like the Papillon, the Bunny and the Eden. Giggling bar girls sipped "Saigon Tea," at $1.69 a glass, while their G.I. boy friends tossed down "33" beer. The coffee shops along Tu Do Street were jammed once more, as were the city's myriad open-air markets. Saigon was coming alive, and it was the fresh prospect of peace that was responsible...
...elders, President Nyerere's sackcloth socialism has produced an official austerity seldom matched in Africa. Members of Parliament are forbidden to own shares in businesses, cannot be corporate directors, and must forfeit their salary of $160 a week if they have any outside income. Only beer is served at government receptions, and the swiftest way to political oblivion is to be a wa-benzi, or the owner of a big car like a Mercedes-Benz...