Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada had a choice: should western barley go to U.S. brewers for dark beer, or should it increase Canada's thin supply of livestock feed...
Grinning Belgians made a point of sitting at sidewalk cafés to sip beer or lemonade and watch the retreat-tattered, dusty men, walking, piled on horse-drawn carts, or riding bicycles which were sometimes without tires. Madly the Germans tried to exchange rum, margarine and other rations for civilian clothes. Fascist Rexists had waited three days at the railway station for a train that never came, then slunk off to hide as best they could. Said a German officer: "We do not like traitors; we merely use them...
...students must wear a special uniform, are forbidden to appear on the streets with girls or to have dates with them. Even brothels are closed to them. Their chief relaxation is to get drunk-but even this is difficult. Japan's wartime grog ration is two bottles of beer a month for each male adult...
Students occasionally manage it by trading some of their rice allowance with people who would rather eat than drink. In time they thus acquire enough beer to help them forget Japanese reality for a few hours...
...water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled side-streets, or back to the upland milltown . . . with its grope-movie and its poolroom lit by gas, carry me back to the days before my wife put on weight, back to the years when beer was cheap and the rivers really froze in the winter...