Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens of tidewater counties last week, Candidate Battle appealed for votes with 50 barrels of iced crabs, enough beer to wash them down and a now-familiar Byrd-cry: that "out-of-state labor leaders" were plotting to overturn Virginia's "good government...
...Haganah, kept his civilian job in the British electric light company in Jerusalem. He also commanded a secret Haganah airbase outside the city. He was a quiet man with a slight paunch, who liked to sit in Jerusalem's Cafe Vienna with his wife and some friends, sipping beer...
...when Evangelical Pastor Louis Schweitzer moved to the little Alsatian village of Giinsbach with his frail-looking six-month-old son Albert, the townspeople said: "Das Bueble isch die erschte Beer-digung wo der neue Pfarrer halte wird [That kid's going to be the new parson's first funeral]." The parson's wife decked out her yellow, pinch-faced baby in a white frock and colored ribbons for his father's induction ceremony. But even so, the visitors could manage no compliments for the baby, and Frau Pfarrer Schweitzer fled weeping to her bedroom with...
...left the 68-year-old gadfly partially paralyzed and stilled his buzzing. But not entirely. Even as he was brought to a halt, his latest book was in the printer's hands. It will remind old readers and explain to many a new one why the cigar-chomping, beer-guzzling Sage of Baltimore has been the most effective irritant in U.S. writing history...
Thirst. In Seattle, a grocery clerk explained why he had stolen some $4,200 from his employer: "I like to drink beer...