Word: brew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman in Mississippi nursing a broken hip last month decided to brew herself a particularly strong cup of Celestial Seasonings' comfrey tea. After putting enough tea in one cupful to make about 18 servings, she complained of nausea and blurry vision. Though the woman quickly recovered, the incident has caused a painful hangover for the teamaker. It prompted Celestial Seasonings to postpone a $12 million stock offering, and the company recalled some 6,000 cases...
Reported by Douglas Brew with the President and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
Normally the purest river in the European part of the Soviet Union, the Dniester became "brinier than the saltiest sea water," in Vasilyev's words. Containing as much as 10 oz. of salt for every quart, the burning brew killed some 2,000 tons of fish, destroyed an unknown quantity of aquatic plant life on which fish thrive, and forced officials to cut off water temporarily to numerous communities that depend on the Dniester, including the major cities of Odessa and Kishinev. To make up for the lost water, officials scurried to drill wells and divert streams and lakes...
They arrived at TIME'S offices around 4 a.m. to shift the journalistic process into overdrive. An hour later, the first dispatch was received from White House Correspondent Douglas Brew, but another hour passed before a phone connection could be made with Beirut. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart had made it to the bomb site shortly after the explosion and was ready to dictate his first files. Said he: "In almost four years of covering the Middle East, I have never seen a more appalling or sickening sight than I saw this morning...
...Kurt Andersen. Reported by Douglas Brew and Gregory H. Wierzynski/ Washington