Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makers of champagne and its fizz-alikes were to assemble for a party this week, it would be a frothy scene indeed. Their business is enjoying cork-popping growth at a time when liquor, beer and table wines have sluggish or declining revenues. Sparkling-wine sales have bubbled up to $1.7 billion this year, 34% more than in 1983. Exports of French champagne to the U.S. this year grew at the same effervescent pace and exceeded 1 million cases for the first time. With New Year's Eve approaching, France's Moët-Hennessy two weeks...
...tube from his patient's throat. For the first time since his artificial heart had been implanted about 36 hours earlier, William Schroeder, 52, could breathe on his own and speak. "Can I get you something to drink?" the doctor asked. Replied Schroeder: "I'd like a beer." It was, DeVries admitted afterward, one of the high points of the tension-filled hours following his second successful attempt to implant an artificial heart...
...week's end the world's second recipient of an artificial heart was getting out of bed and sitting in a chair, eating solid foods-warm porridge and cottage cheese-and sipping that longed-for beer, which he promptly dubbed "the Coors cure." Well-wishers had sent cases of the Colorado brew and other brands, in addition to crateloads of cards, plants and bouquets, even a Cabbage Patch doll...
...night, DiAntonio often joined his cohorts in the bar downstairs, where he would drink German beer and German "applevine," and would discuss issues great and small...
Rosenthal and Stiel ignited newspapers on top of a beer keg in order to "free the lavaratory of odor," then extinguished the blaze and left for Philadelphia to broadcast the Harvard Pennsylvania football game for the campus radio station Johnson said...