Word: brews
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...methods deter crime better than those of the West. The prohibitions on drinking and other vices do not rankle much. Many simply get around them by leading double lives: pious in public, more freewheeling at home and on overseas forays. Bootleg liquor is easily available. The euphemism for home-brew whiskey is "brown," while gin is called "white"; at parties people will say, "I'll have some brown in a + Coke," or "I'll have some white in a Sprite...
...fired Vladilen Nikitin, his appropriately named head of state procurement, after finding his explanation for the shortage "unconvincing and unsound." Soviet smokers seem to agree. "It was bad enough when they took our vodka away," grumbled a man in a tobacco line. "There was eau de cologne or home brew to replace it. But what do you smoke instead of tobacco?" Suggested a young man next to him: "Try some grass...
...more enthusiasm than finesse, but his first album, 1988's Let's Get It Started, produced three Top 10 singles. And those hits have just kept on coming. The proof, he'd say, is in the numbers. If Hammer's music is Rap Lite, it's still a heady brew...
...heat of such boiling hatreds, it is hard to sustain any notion of the university as a protected enclave devoted to opening minds and nurturing tolerance. Instead, many campuses seem to distill the free-floating bigotries of American society into a lethal brew. Since 1986, according to the Baltimore-based National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, more than 250 colleges and universities, including top schools such as Brown, Smith and Stanford, have reported racist incidents ranging from swastikas painted on the walls to violent attacks and death threats...
...Maybe. Go? Not yet. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's call for immediate talks about making the West German mark the common currency of both Germanys has added a new ingredient to the bubbling brew of unification discussion. Like Kohl's other efforts to seize the initiative, it drew a mixed reception. One skeptical voice was that of the Deutsche Bundesbank, legally responsible for protecting the value of the currency. But Kohl's proposal also jolted the average West German into awareness that unification has its price, payable in deutsche marks...