Word: beer
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...Milwaukee-West Allis greater metropolitan area, with one-and-a-quarter million people, produces farm machinery and tractors, automobile parts and, of course, the beer that has made it famous. South of Milwaukee, in a 50-mile megopolis reaching into Illinois, are the heavy manufacturing centers of Racine and Kenosha--Wisconsin's third and fourth largest cities with close to 100,000 people each...
...fact the Eugene McCarthy has mobilized Wisconsin colleges -- both students and faculties -- will mean additional votes for him. Harvard students may be of more marginal value, since voters are often uneasy about what they consider "super-sophisticated" Easterners. Harvard volunteers must be prepared to talk politics over beer and bratwurst in cross-roads taverns...
...manu scripts. The normally routine and propagandistic Rudé Právo is usually sold out by midmorning; people regularly besiege kiosks for the livelier afternoon papers. Others have taken to telephoning government agencies, radio and TV stations for information. Cafes are packed as customers argue over their foamy beer. The cause of the excitement is the transformation that is occurring in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček, 46, who only in January ousted Antonín Novotný as boss of the country's Communist Party. Last week Czechoslovakia's 14,300,000 people were reading news...
...expected it, the entry, you know, to be a real jolly place, so I went upstairs one night to an entry party and sat around drinking beer for a couple of hours. I had expected a little more interest in what was going on in the world. Everybody was saying nonsensical things. So I left. So I sorta felt alienated from that group and that cut off my relationship to the entry. Across the hall were a couple of socialite types and I didn't get along with them...
Faced with the clear threat of a state wide walkout in October, Kirk agreed to call a special session of the legislature. That session began Jan. 29 and ended two weeks ago, after passing a bill providing for about $250 million in new taxes (on beer, liquor, cigarettes and other sales). State officials argued that the new appropriations would provide teachers with an average increase of $1,340 per year. Despite this generous offer, the F.E.A. insisted that the funds would not provide any real improvement in classroom conditions; too much of the new tax money, the association says...