Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initial Beer-bust, through the courtesy of the Juniors, found all being baptized by the saving fluids (what if it was Bock?). Even the birdies outside on the trees flew away at an odd angle. Brogdan and Bennett thought it a beer drinking contest as they showed up in athletic gear. The combined classes split the usually austere atmosphere with well-oiled tonsils. "It must have been quite a time," commented one of Cowie's lovelier dietitians, "to keep the boys away from our wonderful weekly fish supper." (Honest, lady, we love the finny folk...
...gallons of G.I. beer, brewed in Naples, arrived in Anzio...
Reported Dead. Adolf Wagner, 54, former Gauleiter of Bavaria, longtime crony and "other voice" of Adolf Hitler; in Munich. One-legged Wagner marched in the 1923 beer-hall Putsch, at Nürnberg party congresses delivered Hitler's proclamations in the blustering manner of his chief...
...having located the crew of a plane lost in the jungle. Many kinds of supplies are parachuted to lost crews: red blankets and junk jewelry for barter with the natives; playing cards and cribbage boards; Bibles, mess kits, boots, mountain rations, chewing gum, razor blades, ciga-rets, soap, canned beer...
...expectantly. "Pillars of cloud appeared in doorways and spirit forms lounged near windows ... if [the audience] glanced over their shoulders, they might catch an ottoman in the act of pouncing. . . . Pianos playfully wedged old ladies against the walls . . . hassocks stood up and tapped out messages [once the spirits ordered beer for Mr. Home] . . . folding doors swung unnervingly open and shut." To his brilliant repertory of telekinesis (the "science" of moving ob jects without touching them) young Home added the summoning of "pseudopods" (spiritual arms and hands which calmly handed plates and played the piano...