Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counterpoint, Representative Schulze claimed that the average cost of a business lunch in his district was $3.29 -just enough, as one committee observer estimated, for two Big Macs and a drink...
Ever felt tempted on a snowy day to throw back your head and drink in some of those pure white flakes? Try to resist the impulse. After testing samples of snow from several Kansas City areas, Research Chemist David Roberts, a specialist in heavy-metal poisoning, discovered amounts of lead that measured six times the level specified in the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-water standards. Even water from the polluted Kansas River proved less leaden than the snow. According to Roberts, car exhausts and factories are spewing into the environment 1,000 times the natural level of lead...
...attracts as many as 2,000 people a day. They buy "necessities" as varied as $89 loafers and $200,000 diamond-and-pearl necklaces, and they exercise their eccentricities. One man arrives regularly in a white Rolls-Royce, carrying Dom Pérignon in a paper bag, sits down to drink with the help and customers, then drives away, usually without buying anything. Another buys Gucci presents for friends from an attache case stuffed with hundred-dollar bills; he also likes to drink champagne out of new Gucci loafers, then wear them home...
Several patrons of "Father's" Six contacted last night said they do not mind the practices. One customer said last night, "You gotta have a gimmick to get the girls to come here--it don't bother me that they drink for cheap...
...public mind to the scale of a worn-out adjective-one that turns the Beelzebub he implied (totalitarian bureaucracy, the Holocaust, the Gulag) into something only slightly more menacing than the Cookie Monster. "Oh, wow," protests the 17-year-old asked to prove she is old enough to drink. "That's really Kafkaesque...