Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine day soon, the King or Prime Minister would solemnly proclaim the official victory-and the rest of that day Britons would be expected to go about their business as usual. Next day would be a duly designated national holiday, a proper time for celebration. No extra supplies of beer or spirits will be released by the Government for the occasion...
...Oklahoma" alumnus, playing the villainous Jigger Craigin, stands alone from a cast of over 50 as the one realistic and well done character. From insults, "If thar's one thing uh can't stand . . . it's a common woman," to passionate lovemaking, "I'd swim through a sea o' beer for you . . . wit' me mout closed," Vye turns in the outstanding job of the entire performance...
...engineer who designed the water system, not dreaming that the city would grow from 332,000 to half a million in seven years. But Bogota boosters were not in a mood to boast. Only the local temperance leaguers felt like rejoicing: the flow of workingmen's chicha (corn beer) was also drying...
...microbes as minuscule chemical factories has been practiced, if not understood, since the first butter was churned, the first wine pressed, the first beer brewed. Spurred by advances in the field of biochemistry and the pressures of two wars, the employment of microbe labor has recently spread to a whole new field of chemical manufacture. Little is known of the actual metabolic process by which microbes work, but by careful control and endless experiment chemists and biologists, working together, have been able to set them hundreds of chemical tasks...
...husband when the husband invites him to take her out. In A Respectable Place, a drunken cop shoots up Matty Wall's bar and the police benefit society gives him $175 to repair it. Then the cops pass Matty without speaking, his daughter gets a parking ticket, the beer truck un loading at his place gets a summons for obstructing traffic, and when Matty tries to return the $175, he is accused of bribery...