Word: brew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harlem's Golden Age began. "Meat was cheap and home brew was strong," wrote Historian Lerone Bennett. "Duke Ellington was at the Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage...
...past three years-went to two IBM technicians, Charles G. Glancey and Lawrence R. Livigni, who figured out a way to eliminate 14 printed circuits in a computer. Along with other suggestions for which General Electric has paid $14 million in the past 40 years was the "Peek-a-Brew" coffeemaker, which shows how much coffee is inside...
...Young Dems elected A.J. Heath '66, first vice-president; Paul DeRensis '66, second vice-president; Patricia D. Carden '66, secretary; and Lindsay E. Brew '66, treasurer. The YDCHR then voted to endorse the candidacy of Senator Stephen Young (D-Ohio) over astronaut John Glenn...
...apart some of the enormously complex mixtures of organic chemicals that have been made by nature-most notably, the hundreds of enzymes and other proteins in his own blood, the scores of hormones secreted by his glands, or the dozen antibiotics that may be made in a single fermentation brew-he scarcely knows where to begin. For nature's chemicals may look alike and yet be distinguished by invisible differences of life-or-death importance in medicine...
...truce flags. Slaughtering pure-bred animals creates a confusion in his mind between the theory of German racism and the practice of the gas chambers and starts him on the path to mental collapse. Although Walser occasionally lapses into stereotypes (e.g. the officious German scientist) and occasionally the symbolic brew of Germans, Jews, rabbits, love, and conception is gagging, in his attempt to treat more, his flaws are more understandable...