Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characterizations ranged from the rollicking buffoon of such films as Doctor in the House (1954) to the chin-up R.A.F. pilot of Reach for the Sky (1956); of Parkinson's disease; in London. "I seem fated to be either the stiff-upper-lip war hero or the hearty, beer-drinking idiot," More once complained. The remark was overly self-deprecating, as his wonderfully whimsical performance in Genevieve (1953) testified...
Charles Gaines, the head gunman, gave a brief demonstration of how to drink beer through a camouflage head net. Then, raising the net to expose his face, he told his congregation of thugs that the day's shootings would be conducted according to the honor system. Zapped personnel were to assume that death was instantaneous. They were to expire without comment, and of course without any post-mortem cannoneering at the enemy. Judges would be available to settle torts among defunct contestants, but we who were about to play the National Survival Game, he said sternly, were...
...captured red flag and sagged to the ground, chest heaving. He had knocked off the last remaining red defender and won the game. From the woods around, players he had splotched earlier stood up and cheered. Then all of us went to see whether there was any more beer in the ice chest. -By John Skow
...Nottingham, 33, a beer wholesaler in Hartford City, Ind., had crooked teeth as a child and recalls, "I just wasn't ready emotionally for braces." Years later, looking at a family photograph, he noticed that even as an adult he was holding his mouth "very strangely" in order to cover his malaligned teeth. Last October a dentist spent 1 hr. 45 min. fitting Nottingham with braces. Two weeks later his teeth were wired. "Within 60 days, there was a tremendous amount of difference," says Nottingham, whose 18-to 24-month treatment will cost $3,000. "I'm seeing...
...drink the dregs of very sour beer...