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Word: beers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would gain $172. Says one Senate Democrat: "What we are fighting for is suburbia." Former Budget Director Charles Schultze puts it another way: "When the chips are down on tax cuts, those who talked about priorities for pollution control and education and an end to hunger voted for beer and cosmetics and whitewall tires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What the Tax Bill Does | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Libya's new rulers are stressing their allegiance to the stern precepts of Islam. One of the junta's first decrees was to outlaw beer and whisky. In Tripoli TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott discovered that "up" and "down" elevator buttons had been covered by tape to obscure the offending English words. All foreign-language street signs were removed. Because the menus must be printed only in Arabic, waiters in hotels must translate aloud the list of dishes to non-Arabic-speaking diners. To their great embarrassment, hotel guests are confusing the Arabic equivalents of "ladies" and "gents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Young Men in a Hurry | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...cost of watching a Pittsburgh Steelers home game rose from $6 to $7-plus a 15? surcharge to help pay for a now abuilding stadium, whose estimated price increased from $32 million last spring to $35 million at present. In the taverns of the steel city, the 15? beer could be found no more; it now costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Consumer: Behind the Nine Ball | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...adolescents involved. "Pooch" (if you can believe it) and Jerry, are freshmen at college. (College... you know what that is, where they have mad, crushing parties in the middle of the day with loud music and people pouring beer on each other's heads; where your roommate leeringly asks you if you have laid your girlfriend yet... you must have read about it somewhere.) Pookie is slightly neurotic, if one would describe a person with all the symptoms of a speed-freak in those words. Jerry is straightman. He is so deeply affected by contact with the chick that...

Author: By Jill Curtis, | Title: The Moviegoer The Sterile Cuckoo at the Cheri through December 24 | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...several rides on the way to Taos. One was with a construction worker who gave us beer and offered to take us all the way to the commune if Yana would ride nude. I declined the offer and Yana said that that wasn't really what the man wanted and it wouldn't do anybody any good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Road from Gallup to Albuquerque: | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

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