Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four packing houses. Wrapped in heavy clothing, they huddle around bonfires, crowd into hastily built shacks and drink coffee out of big kettles heated on bonfires. They jump around, swinging their big arms to keep warm. The bar in the union hall locked up its whiskey and beer 'for the duration,' sells only coke and tomato juice. If a drunk appears on the picket line he is yanked out, hauled home, cussed...
...last week 2,000 insurgent Roxas followers crowded into Manila's Santa Ana Cabaret* drink beer, spout oratory in Tagalog, English and Spanish, and nominate him for the island's highest office. A few days later old line Nacionalistas held a nominating convention in Giro's, another nightclub, and put Osmeña's name on the ballot. The Philippines were devastated and flat broke. They would stay that way until the dilatory U.S. Congress passed legislation granting $450,000,000 for postwar rehabilitation. But now the future at least promised excitement. The hottest political campaign...
Paul and Erich found Informer Knopf in a Pankow beer garden. Later an eyewitness said, "They merely asked him to step outside, were quite pleasant about it too." Next day Knopf's battered body was found in a parking...
...famed university. It was a sorry parody of itself-and had been for ten years. When, in 1936, educators from 32 nations went to Germany to pay their respects on Heidelberg's 550th birthday, they found themselves officiating at a wake. The Student Prince atmosphere of Heidelberg, the beer mugs, the sabers and the sashes were gone. SS uniforms and swastika flags had displaced them...
...Beer and Belligerence. The Lincoln Courier is housed in a brick building on Courthouse Square, with a game room upstairs where thirsty printers can slake their thirst with beer. The Courier is belligerently Republican, more isolationist than the Chicago Tribune, if possible...