Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beer will flow copiously that evening, starting at 7:30 o'clock, when the editors of Cambridge's only breakfast table companion open their doors at 14 Plympton Street to all interested in gaining positions on the staff...
...turn aside the charges of his Partisan accusers. Seven hours a day, for three days, fortified by a breakfast of rum and tea, the bushy-bearded Chetnik answered their hammering questions and returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best defense lawyers could lift his pessimism. "I wish you wouldn't torture me with rhetoric," Mihailovich begged the court. "I am a soldier too weary to remember." Time & again all that he could...
Bread had become an under-the-counter scarcity, beer an over-the-bar rarity. The wheat ships were still not full enough nor fast enough to assuage the world's hunger pains. But the U.S. citizen gleaned an inkling at least of the largest mass movement of grain ever...
...soft coal strike ended, the hard coal strike began. As usual, there were no picket lines; the strikers loafed, gardened, or drank up available beer in taverns. Would the whole pattern be repeated again? There was one consolation. The soft coal strike was the big strike. The hard coal strike was the little...
...small fry and bobby-soxers use the Shack for archery, croquet, ping-pong, dances ("We've got a juke box," boasts Smith, "and we're not ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table he says: "It puts us one up on the nearest beer hall." Smith's explanation of his work: "When Christ was on earth He made the blind to see, the lame to walk. We, too, believe in ministering to the people's everyday wants in order to fulfill their spiritual needs...