Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beer: none...
...have long had the run of the post exchange, and for the Negro troops that, along with other privileges, was just too much. There was open bad feeling, a small scrap last week when the U.S. troops decided the Italians were getting the best of the PX's beer and cigarets...
...Glass. London had developed a deep and understandable phobia: glass. It had felt the blast of high explosives before. Blast would, as it did, strip the clothing off a woman near a factory window, leave the factory and its machines virtually undamaged. It would, as it did, suck the beer out of a mug in a man's hand, leave the mug, the man and his hand unhurt. It would also kill without leaving a visible wound...
...unspoken ritual in the pubs. When the buzz of a bomb or the repeated wail of an alarm as heard, the customers put down their drinks, walked out. whistling. Even the street was safer than a place of bottles and mirrors. The danger passed, they returned to their beer...
Night Out. In The Bronx, a beer-drinking crow named Deacon, whose small vocabulary includes "bow-wow," flew out of the zoo, was discovered in a fight with a cat two blocks away, was returned to the zoo minus some feathers and smelling of beer from an unknown donor...