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...FROELING, MISS IOWA 1979, brags its welcome sign), but the residents are friendly, and alcohol, strictly forbidden on the boats, is amply available. John and Donna Coffield invited several of the stranded bargemen into their home for Christmas and New Year's. "The last time they came, they drank 26 pitchers of beer," recalls John, "and they claimed they weren't thirsty...
Others set the date in 1904, when Chekhov on his deathbed declared, "It's a long time since I drank champagne." Appropriately, his coffin then rode to burial in a freight car marked FRESH OYSTERS...
...evening, Lyle lit a fine cigar. In his new life, he said, talking to his guests was the part he liked best. He raised his snifter, and when he drank, the snifter pushed his half-spectacles from the tip of his nose to the bridge. When he removed the snifter, the eyeglasses slid back, like a beginning skier on a beginners slope...
...desert last week, a playful voice crackled from the radio at Mission Control in Houston. "Columbia," it said, "we've got some good news and bad news for you. The good news is, we've had lots of beer waiting for you. The bad news is, we drank it eight hours...
...place without a policeman, or a need for one. From kindergarten through eighth grade, Steinkuhler attended country school in the company of three classmates, one of them a girl. "We had to round up everybody in town to play any sort of sport," he says. "We drank a lot of pop in Burr and mowed a lot of lawns...