Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highly contagious. Consider the case of William G. Patterson, the highflying, unorthodox executive vice president of Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank. While negotiating million-dollar deals in restaurants during the early 1980s, he would sometimes regale out-of-town clients with such stunts as drinking beer out of his cowboy boot or stuffing a roast quail into his pocket. In his office at Penn Square, he would sport Mickey Mouse ears or a hollowed-out duck decoy on his head. Patterson's lending ideas were just as madcap; his department invested 80% of the bank...
...final day of the New Orleans World's Fair last week, 82,916 people thronged the exposition grounds, lining up to ride the monorail and partying in the German beer garden. Sadly, it was all too late. The fair, which was in financial trouble even before it opened in May, had filed for bankruptcy just five days earlier...
...Harvard Stadium. The cold temperatures discouraged elaborate tailgating but not enthusiastic spectating, even from the Yale bulldog, who strolled around the field while a flasher made several token appearances. Banished to the end zones, undergraduates wearing "Bulldog Buster" hats and "Fight 'Fiercely Harvard" pins built human pyramids and chugged beer. Both sides of the Stadium took turns standing and cheering, then sitting and shivering...
...fire was reported at 6:22 p.m. when smoke emerged from the fifth-floor bathroom of Standish Hall C-Entry. Students in the seven-member suite quickly extinguished the fire, which caused no damage to the bathroom. Police found a pile of newspapers lying on top of a beer keg where the fire started, police said...
Because the proposed regulation prohibits bars from awarding alcoholic prizes, members of the Kong's 69 Beer Club will no longer receive a free drink after savoring a total of 69 different brews within three months...