Word: beer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles, "And Now a Word about Commercials" and "Healing by Tinkering" expose the appalling attitude of the citizenry of this, the richest country, toward their fellow citizens. Apparently the American public is willing to pay, via the marketplace, a hidden tax on its beer, cigarettes, detergents and automobiles to support $22,000-per-minute television commercials, but is unwilling to pay for the vitally needed equipment or manpower to save the lives of more than a slim handful of the 20,000 or more Americans who develop a treatable kidney disease each year...
...woman sat in the previously all male press gallery; and a lot of bearded, beaded students saw the inside of the Park for the first time. Women in long black dresses walked by hot dog stands looking for their husbands as the Red Sox home's traditional brisk beer business fell off sharply...
Significantly, the court has not charged that the fake wine is harmful. "The aim of the adulterators is not extermination," said one Italian police officer wryly. "After all, they have to safeguard their market." Italians' confidence in their wine has been severely shaken; in some parts of Italy, beer has at least temporarily replaced wine on the dinner table...
...reality, Green Beret camps are heavily bunkered, often reinforced with cement. In the movie, an evening's relaxation for Special Forces officers involves an outing to a Miami-style club, at which some of the guests are in evening clothes; in reality, substitute a few cans of beer in a bare, functional officers' mess. In the movie, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese walk into the camp's defenses like so many head of cattle; in reality, they usually hit the way good infantrymen are taught to attack, using every inch of terrain for cover...
...Chuck Lane with two minutes to go and scuttled six yards around left end with his aloha shirt flapping. A crowd of 17 fans turned out for the game, which was blacked out on nationwide TV. There was some fear that the game might have to be postponed when beer vendors refused to cross the picket lines thrown up by striking members of the National Football League's Players Association. But that crisis was averted when Toots Shor agreed to act as water boy for both teams...