Word: draught
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...remotest villages of the Marches there was often nothing to eat but hard bread, onions and anchovies, but every morning I awoke to a glamorous adventure, tasted the freshness of a spring or autumn morning in the Bergamesque valley as if it were a deliciously inviting draught. Each alterpiece in its place in the cool or warm but penumbral light of a church I enjoyed like the satisfaction of a vow, and it remained fixed in memory as a crystalline individuality... Its overtones lingered in recollection and its taste on the palate...
...Down the Draught. In Rutland, Vt., the post office received a letter addressed to "Santa Claus'' and signed by "Cindy" with the message: "I'll leave you a glass of ginger ale, and if you're still thirsty I could leave you two quarts of beer. Remember, my house is the one with the beer...
...During this festive winter season," TV Announcer Henri Bergeron told Montrealers, with a pause-that-refreshes smile, "Drink good Coca-Cola. Why don't you share one with me now?" Bergeron, the town's top announcer, toasted his vast audience, took a long, deep draught from the glass, choked. He gasped. He coughed. Finally he managed to rasp: "If you want it in quantity, here's the large economy bottle...
...searing drought for as long as eight years, the kiss of moisture on the crumbling land stirred a pulse-pounding flicker of hope; now, perhaps, seasonal rains would soak the ravaged soil, renew the empty springs. Last week the hoped-for moisture came. But it was a bitter draught...
Barley & Rice. Anyone can (and millions did, during Prohibition) brew a batch of beer. But its uniform mass production is a highly technical manufacturing process. At Anheuser-Busch, the brewmasters claim that Budweiser and its higher-priced companion beer Michelob (sold only on draught) have only the finest ingredients, e.g., imported hops, rice instead of oily corn grits, and two-row "Hannchen" barley, whose two rows of kernels in the head are bigger, more even, and contain more starch and less moisture than the more prevalent six-row barley kernels...