Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times that much. There is an additional discrimination that probably is due to the Soviet Union's problem with alcoholism. While officers may tipple in moderation onshore?and those of the Black Sea Fleet may even enjoy white wine at meals?Soviet sailors are forbidden at all times to drink on either land or sea. From all indications, the order is surprisingly well obeyed...
...best summation of its philosophy when he testified against tax reduction before a congressional committee in 1965. "I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend," he said, "if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the streets are filthy and the schools so bad that the young, perhaps wisely, stay away, and hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in taxes...
...estimates, the bottled-water industry now sells $65 million a year worth of purified water, coolers, cups and allied equipment. About 40% of that business is concentrated in arid Southern California, partly because of the climate and partly because much of the local tap water, though safe enough to drink, would shrivel a mess sergeant's taste buds. The demand is spreading. Mountain Valley Water Co. distributes its green bottles of spring water from Hot Springs, Ark., to 40 states. And to cater to tastes brought home by tourists, President John G. Scott has added such familiar European mineral...
...business," as always, "seriously" (Monday through Friday) "and gaily" (Friday and Saturday). Yet students cannot take a trip without paying double for their food. They cannot sleep late without losing money. They cannot catch a movie in Boston with a date and go back to their rooms for a drink. They have to put an alarm clock by their bed in the evening as well as the morning. If an old high school girlfriend appears in the middle of the day, she can't see her boyfriend's room. And, all the while, dorm-livers watch off-campus students paying...
Many aren't even opposed to the war. Service was a hurdle that Montreal got them around. "What the hell," said one nineteen-year-old from the Bronx, "I got my notice one day in the mail and went to a bar to have a drink before I went. There was a guy there just back from Vietnam: two wooden arms, two wooden legs, and no disability payments. 'What's in it for me?' I said to myself and caught the next bus for here. I would have gone except Canada's where it's at and the Army wasn...