Word: beers
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...industry and invite even more competition. In fact, companies such as General Telephone & Electronics and ITT are already challenging AT&T's dominance over phone equipment by selling telephones themselves, as are a host of smaller firms that have been cranking out toylike phone gadgets that look like beer cans, Mickey Mouse and Superman. The devices connect right up to the Bell lines in homes or offices. AT&T is fighting back through its 1,800 PhoneCenter retail outlets around the country, which offer an equally broad array telephone designs to customers...
...evening of Carter's renomination, Wilkie produced a carefully crafted 1,000-word analysis of the cultural and political gulf between Carter and Kennedy. He finished that at 7 p.m., cracked open a beer and ten minutes later started writing background material for the lead story. Except for a brief sortie to the hall, Wilkie remained at the typewriter for the next seven hours, revising his stories for the paper's three morning and two afternoon editions. All told he turned out more than 3,000 words, the equivalent of a full-length magazine article...
...their long hours, Wilkie and Bradley fared much better than less celebrated colleagues. While the little-shots settled for free beer and sandwiches at a press lounge funded by the railroad industry lobby, the Globe contingent was enjoying a final $300 expense account lunch at Luchow's (chosen because it was a favorite hangout of Convention Chronicler H.L. Mencken...
...penicillin-really does help to cure a cold (it comforts nasal passages). They show why Chinese drink no milk, discuss the Aztec hunger for human flesh (people who ate people were the victims of protein deficiency) and explain why Africa's Bemba society would collapse into chaos without beer (a major source of nourishment as well as a ceremonial beverage). Consuming Passions may not make consumers appreciate the Chinese taste for sea slugs or the African appetite for insects. But most of its hors d'oeuvres and entrées will make any reader grateful that man does...
...honor the exuberant, slightly bizarre poetry of their commercial muse. Two or three generations ago, the national laureate might have been the anonymous bard who wrote the Burma Shave roadside quatrains ("In this vale/ Of toil and sin/ Your head grows bald/ But not your chin/ Burma Shave.") The beer commercial ("You've danced all day on a pool of fire," or some such: "Now Comes Miller Time!") has invented a sort of macho haiku that might turn into a national verse form...