Word: coked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Better than Barley Water. U.S. soft drinks have been downed-and some times damned-abroad ever since Coca-Cola uncapped the international market 66 years ago. Almost half of Coke's $864 million-a-year sales comes from its 800 bottling plants abroad, and it still holds the largest share of the foreign market for U.S. soft drinks. Every day, from Australia to the Apennines, 85 million customers call for a Coke, referring to it as Ha-Ha in Ethiopia's Amharic language or Ko-Kou Ko-Lo, which in Mandarin Chinese also trans lates into "palatable...
...them for barley water as warm-weather refreshers, upper-caste Indians serve them at wedding receptions, and Middle East businessmen offer them to visitors as an alternative to Turkish coffee. Europeans mix their whisky with ginger ale or lemon-lime. White Rhodesians have a fad on for brandy and Coke. Zambian copper-belt workers, who once paid threepence for a home-brewed raspberry drink, now pay sixpence for "sophisticated" sodas. Everywhere, increasing ownership of refrigerators has lifted soft-drink sales. In Hong Kong, U.S. brands hold 60% of a $13 million market against such competitors as Pearl River, an aerated...
...latest installment, subtitled The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola, is a cubistic jigsaw-puzzle picture of the go-go generation. In his usual abrupt abstract style, Godard scatters the screen with dissociated pieces of plot: a Marx-marked high school dropout (Jean-Pierre Leaud) meets and mates a Coke-stoked rock-'n'-roll belter (Chantal Goya), but not long after dies in an absurd accident, leaving the girl to face an amateur abortion performed with a curtain rod. The puzzle is further complicated by irrelevancies: switchblade suicide, lesbian interlude, subway murder, movie within a movie within...
...biggest men in baseball, and he spent seven years perfecting the fine art of tobacco chewing-"the trick," says Powell, "is not to swallow." Leftfielder Curt Blefary keeps a pet cocker spaniel that has scrambled eggs and Coke for breakfast. "Ugh," says Blefary, who has been known to start his own day with clam chowder and hamburger...
...corporations, for he was Coca-Cola's export chief to sub-Saharan Africa for four years. As president since 1962, he has pushed some of the measures that diversified and brightened up a company that was tending to complacency. He decided to introduce the "lift-top" cap on Coke bottles and cans, helped move the company into coffee roasting...