Word: brew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher got up and scrawled something on the board. Vag saw everyone else writing busily in their notebooks, and began laboriously himself to copy the scrawl--it came out looking suspiciously like "Kbacc" which, he was told was a Russian home brew. Vag wondered vaguely whether Russians liked Scotch and sodas, or had a phrase for "bottoms up." "EE vwi!" the instructor screamed as he bounded from his chair and bore down threateningly on Vag. Vag froze in his seat and searched frankly for the word. "Da," he managed to utter tentatively, and then, when no lightning struck...
...Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
When Jinx left, there was a mad stampede toward the Common Room and beer. One table and innumerable spectators were trampled in the dust. One intelligent Yardling came fortified with peach brandy; while about 25 others joined in kidapping a whole keg of brew...
Pleasant news to non-teetotaling Freshmen is the committee's announcement that a license has been obtained to allow beer to be served, and according to Richard McCarthy, chairman, there will be barrels of brew on hand. Cigarettes, tobacco, pretzels, crackers, Coca-Cola and other refreshments will also stock the commissary which the Yardlings will attack after the show...
...imminent liquor shortage were confirmed by a survey of provision stores throughout the Square. There is an acute gin shortage at present, and probably there will be no gin this summer, for the manufacture of smokeless gun powder is taking most of the alcohol produced for this brew. Although no rum shortage exists at present, it is expected soon...