Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California last week, Buchanan demonstrated that quality at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. He sauntered onstage, took a gulp of beer, then stepped forward with his Fender Telecaster guitar. The youthful audience welcomed him with screams and cheers. For the next two hours, Buchanan and his three sidemen played to constant outbursts from the crowd: "Come on, Roy ... Right on, Roy." Roy responded by singing about half the 18 songs on the program, including the wailing Roy's Bluz and the chuckling My Cat Walked Out Last Sunday. But the biggest applause came for the broad...
...reality, for both Britons and Americans, produced not culture shock but culture swoon. The greenness and smallness of Britain captivated the Yanks, followed in short order by the beer, fish and chips, pubs, bikes and, of course, the dames. Their hosts were fascinated by Jeeps, all things in cans from jam to ham, jitterbugging, frozen steaks, cigars and the incredible generosity of G.I.'s - who were paid five times as much as a tommy. There was also the legend of Yankee sexual rapacity and capacity. "They're overfed, overpaid, oversexed and over here," ran the familiar litany...
Another class activity was a softball game at Soldiers Field in which teaching fellow Mike Forte slammed a pair of homers and Jones added a solo clout. The informal atmosphere of the outing was enhanced by two cases of beer, a "fringe benefit" of the course...
Essay question (100 pts.): Who's got the beer...
After a post-tournament awards ceremony, a couple of the losing players headed indoors to drown their sorrows in a beer drinking contest. "Jesus," Parsons said, "I really feel lousy that we lost...