Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outdoor tea party in Wonderland. Smack in the middle of a mud-fouled road at Pumpi, 40 miles from Secessionist Moise Tshombe's last-ditch headquarters at Kolwezi, United Nations Brigadier Reginald Noronha set up four folding tables and laid out tea, peanut-butter sandwiches, coffee and Simba beer. At 9 a.m.. right on schedule, four Katanga province officials and three representatives of the Union Miniere mining outfit roared up in two autos. ''We have come to meet you as friends," declared one, and the party...
...great integrity, as well as a very brilliant man," said Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government. "He succeeded against great difficulties in pulling his party together...
...Beer said that Gaitskell "was not a clever politician. His integrity was so strong that he couldn't always make adjustments, but in the long run he won everybody's respect. He had many friends in Washington and Cambridge...
...time-honored custom. Until eight years ago, Rhode Island's Rudolph F. Haffenreffer, the Narragansett beer king, owned the 6,130-ft. Mount Hope suspension bridge on Route 114, which then averaged about 5,000 cars a day, paying 60? a passage...
...rail-splitting lay on a table in the center along with a blackthorn walking stick. "This is even better than the Thomas Wolfe manuscripts," he thought, recalling with some amusement the tons of paper which had arrived from Wolfe's executors. "Tons and tons of scrawly paper and three beer glasses," he muttered, walking next door to the science fiction room. He peered in at a lurid wall of magazines and paper novels. Some new stuff had come in, garishly decorated with girls in scanty space suits under attack by lusting Venusian monsters. He glanced once more to make sure...