Word: beerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while one epidemic died down, another began to build as the traditional frenetic spirit of rivalry stirred in Harvard hearts--The Game with Yale. South House residents planned a huge toga party, complete with free beer from Anheuser Busch. Everyone's expectations were disappointed, however, when Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, turned down the original SoHo proposal and Eli's men prevailed over the Big H by a score...
...slugged it out at the State House. The issue? Hiking the state's drinking age enough to keep freshmen and sophomores sober. Proposals ranged from a flat 21-year drinking age to one plan allowing 18-year-olds to drink in bars, 20-year-olds to buy wine and beer at liquor stores, and 21-year-olds to pursue any liquid vice they wished...
...heretofore mediocre Hearst paper, the Globe has become more and more complacent. Although the Globe boasts some of the best reporters in the country, notably Curtis Willkie in the Washington bureau, its overall editorial direction can only be described as laidback. While the Globe's Lazy-Boy-recliner-and-beer-can-with-TV-tuned-to-the-Red-Sox energy level may do wonders for its reporters' longevity and mid-career heart attack possibilities, Boston is the worse for it in terms of the hustled- and scrambled-for news story...
...airliner in flight. After the show the Federal Aviation Agency recorded a dramatic increase in phone-in bomb threats to airlines. More horrifying was the lawsuit against the same network by a mother who asked for $11 million after her nine-year-old daughter was gang-raped with a beer bottle by three teen-age girls and a boy. The assailants had seen a similar rape of a girl by girls on a TV movie only a few days earlier, though the instrument was the handle of a plumber's helper...
...players themselves. Shortly after taking over the badly divided Rangers last June, he approved the appointment of six captains; the six set team policy, levy fines and take turns leading the team on the ice. Shero did intervene on one point: he lifted the traditional ban against beer in the locker room...