Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individual who differs from "the basic white Protestant Anglo-Saxon settlers by religion, language and culture." Since, of the total population, 65% come from non-Anglo-Saxon stock, this amounts to a lot of voters, most of them in the big cities. In New York, as the Rheingold-beer ads say, there are more Italians than in Naples, more Puerto Ricans than in San Juan, more Greeks than in Sparta. Minority sympathies are still considered essential in civic affairs, and the ethnically balanced ticket remains something of a reflex...
...more in Cincinnati to locate ethnic areas, the Italians and Germans in particular, and the Irish too. You don't have the enclaves that used to exist, like the over-the-Rhine area across the canal." Once, south St. Louis was as German as Berlin, studded with beer gardens. Turnvereins and regular Schutzen-fests. Today the beer gardens have become bars, the Turnvereins have disbanded, and the Germans who made their start in south St. Louis have prospered and dispersed. In Kansas City, the young Italians no longer set the old St. Joseph's table for the poor...
Moreover, the two major parties are no longer all that far apart; both, for example, espouse similar welfare-state programs, and the Socialists are expected to go along with a tax increase on some consumer items (beer, cigarettes, gasoline) so long as personal income tax rates remain unchanged...
...averaged 40.8 yds. per punt, booted three field goals -including a last-minute 40-yarder against Auburn that won the game 30-27. The son of a Presbyterian minister, married to the niece of Penn State's former coach Rip Engle, Spurrier rarely smokes, drinks only an occasional beer, is active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Rumor has it that under secret terms of the pro merger, he is ticketed to the National Football League's New York Giants, who desperately need a top quarterback if they are to improve on this season's sorry record...
...Sneaky Beer. Many singers continue their eating and drinking while performing, following the tradition of Soprano Giulia Grisi, who, whenever she had to fall onstage, always landed near a trap door so that a stagehand could sneak her a glass of beer. In the Metropolitan Opera's current production of Electra, Birgit Nilsson's search for Agamemnon's ax is really a quest for a ginger ale stashed under a rock...