Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FAVORITE DRINK: Big Red Cowpuncher (6 ozs. Genesee beer, half-cup of fresh cream, jigger-full of tobacco juice, and a packet of unsweetened cherry Kool-Aid, with a twist...
Unreasonable exchange rates, which now mean a cup of coffee costing $2 in Geneva or a hotel room $100 a night in Tokyo, increase the danger of protectionist trade wars as everyone runs to shield his market against low-priced U.S. competition. The Tokyo Round of trade talks, which has been dragging on for four years, is in danger largely because of the dollar. Finally, global inflation is being fired anew. Uncertain what the value of a product will be even a few weeks from now, both exporters and importers raise prices a little more to ensure against a possible...
...Rendezvous is closing early these days, and Tommy's never seems right if you want to nurse your wounds over a 3 a.m. cup of coffee. Except for Brighams, which even freshmen have stopped going to after the first two weeks of school, there is no place in the Square plastic and peaceful enough to serve as an escape from any situation that has gotten a little too hairy to deal with at some ungodly hour of the morning...
...seemed possible we might work our way through a bottomless cup of coffee and a stack of chocolate chip pancakes in relative quiet, unhassled by anything more complicated than figuring out the tip. Lulled by the reassuring buzz of the enormous glowing purple fly killer on the wall, I only wanted to hunker down over my order, and check out my fellow urban refugees who crowded the place. As the night went on, however, the crowd grew stranger. Any hope of calm was destroyed, and a hasty retreat became the only course left...
Secluded in our booth, the first cup of coffee began to cut the fog. As we looked around, I had the warm feeling that I was back in high school, hanging out. One of IHOP's greatest features is that they are all identically tacky, so that all are familiar and safe. From the spreading pool of artificially colored and flavored boysenberry syrup that eventually leaves the table purple and gooey, to the clashing blue and orange of the seats and ceiling, IHOP's are always the same...