Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Finally, painted in neat black-and-white script, a tastebud red alert: Le Français. The building looks like a suburban developer's vision of a French country inn, and the visitor pauses for a moment to savor the incongruity. Wheeling, Ill. (pop. 23,089), is a beer-and-pretzels kind of town with a sizable blue-collar population. Yet here, 30 miles from downtown Chicago, is one of the best restaurants...
Helicopter pads were installed to supplement the one the ship already has. Some 5,000 sheets of particle board were used to cover paneled walls and carpeting. Truckloads of such rations as chocolate and ice cream, as well as an estimated 100,000 pints of beer, were being loaded aboard. With the refitting going on day and night, the liner could be ready to sail by midweek. About a third of the ship's regular crew of more than 700 was expected to sign up for the hazardous trip south, with pay jumping 150% once the ship sails seven...
There have been more elegant descriptions of the gaudy, gawky new flying machines called ultralight aircraft, but none more accurate than this waggish observation. The plane that sounds like a low-calorie beer does resemble a plastic -and video-age version of the Kitty Hawk. Or, as a Tolkienian might put it, a petroleum-feeding pterodactyl. In any case, the planes are designed not to lodge beauty in the eye of the earth-bound beholder but, rather, to warm the soul of the seat-of-the-pants pilot. Put-putting along a few hundred feet up at 40 m.p.h...
...sure enought, he soon parades around his and Benson's apartment, emptying ashtrays, making cheese souffles for lunch, bringing Benson breakfast in bed, and ironing Benson's underwear. Benson returns home from a tiring day at work; Kerwin sits him down and gives him a beer, promising. "I'll run your bath," Archie Bunker never had it so good...
...wield "discretion" apparently gives. But masters have so far failed to develop uniformity this year despite promises. The ongoing confusion among students as to exactly what Harvard allows is gradually precipitating into resentment between Houses and toward particular masters. On the inconsequential subject of a couple of mugs of beer on a Saturday night, the masters should quickly establish slight house taxes and cease trying to administer the policy themselves. Further neglect could turn what should be nothing more than an altogether pleasant subject into an absurdly controversial issue...