Word: beer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blasts of car horns. Most white Rhodesians performed their usual tasks, went home to their usual dinners and sat down to watch their usual TV programs. In the teeming African townships of Highfield and Harare, police doubled their nightly patrols, but all was quiet. The African beer halls, normally raucous with life, were gloomy and deserted...
...Lang is one of the few modern artists who has found a way of reconciling technology and nature. Most of us allow the technological age to alienate us from aesthetic experience. We can't look at nature without seeing beer cans. "Pop" and "Op" art have dominated the art market for more than two years; but they don't present a new trend. Instead, they undercut traditional artistic values and divert out attention away from aesthetic experience as a defense against this discomforting sense of alienation...
...declaration gave Smith and his men the massive powers of a police-state regime. Newspapers and magazines could be censored or even closed by simple decree, private travel and public gatherings could be banned, and such institutions as bars and beer halls closed down. Even worse, according to the 24-page official document outlining the government's emergency powers, "any police officer may, without warrant, arrest and detain any person of whom he has reason to believe there are grounds which would justify his detention...
Pitchman & Lion. Along the Eastern seaboard, Rheingold beer, once notorious for a stupefying parade of look-alike Miss Rheingolds, has switched to a vigorous ethnic pitch. Its commercials now show Negroes, Jews, Greeks, Irish and other minority groups enjoying themselves at parties, quaffing beer when they get too tired to dance. Rheingold then shrugs at its new-found success with its now famous tag line: "We must be doing something right...
...reasons, U.S. imports traditionally run at about 3% of the gross national product. That total tends to rise sharply, however, in times of prosperity -and this year it has spurted faster than at any time in a decade. The surge may satisfy the fanciers, and the sellers, of Dutch beer, Swiss watches or Italian fashions, but it bothers the U.S. Government. The nation's trade surplus -the excess of exports over imports-is rapidly shrinking, thus reducing the base that the U.S. has used to support its foreign and military aid in the face of its chronic balance...