Word: brews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year later he made a real name for himself-California 845200. This time he was in San Quentin on a two-year, nine-month rap for attempting to hold up a bar in his home town, Bakersfield. As cocky and uncontrollable as they come, he steamed up some home brew under the guards' noses-and got caught. As his 21st birthday rolled around, he found himself in solitary confinement with only pajama bottoms, a Bible and a blanket on a cement floor to call his own. At long last he was convinced that something was wrong with...
Model Railroad. Today country-music stars may sing about riding the freights or drinking a brew, but many go home to antebellum mansions or $500,000 ranch houses, buy Cadillacs and keep houseboats around for the weekends. A trend now is toward private jets, but many country stars, Haggard included, prefer to own their own buses-huge $100,000 cruisers decked out with color TVs, recording equipment, separate quarters for star and band, sometimes even separate buses...
Cambridge, internationally famous for its universities, has long held a reputation as a diversified community. Each year knowledge thirsty students from around the world gravitate to the City-by-the-Charles to drink from the cup of learning proffered by Harvard and MIT. And having sampled the brew of power and knowledge that these venerable institutions have to offer, these same students, at the completion of their intellectual bacchanal, scatter across the globe to take up positions as power brokers of the world...
...with relatively primitive methods. Larger particles of waste are usually allowed to settle out of the polluted water, which is filtered through gravel and sand and then chlorinated before being piped to a nearby river or lake. Trouble is, such "purified" sewage is almost always contaminated with a rich brew of bacteria and viruses, to say nothing of stubborn industrial wastes that may serve as fertilizers and cause such rapid plant growth in the waters where they are dumped that all other forms of life are eventually choked...
...weaker brew, served in less ornate cups, costs a steep 495 yen (more than three times the standard price) when taken at the counter. That is where the majority of Funakoshi's customers sit, hoping to see someone come in and order the special $38 cup. Hardly anyone complains about the high prices. As Funakoshi explains it: "Compared to 9,900 yen, 495 is a real bargain...