Word: eau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weather will be warm, so be sure to drink enough water. Bebe mucho agua. Buvez beaucoup d'eau. There will be a service for Jewish runners at 8:30. If you're not used to having doughnuts before a race, don't eat the ones we've provided because your stomach might not accept them very well. In five minutes there will be an aerobics warm-up session...
...effort, the results of Gorbachev's sobering initiative have so far been mixed. Sales of hard liquor, mainly vodka, have fallen by 15%, and wine and champagne sales are off by 25%. Because of the restrictions on the sale of liquor, problem drinkers increasingly are resorting to gulping eau de cologne, and many shops have stopped selling cologne. Many Soviets resort to buying liquor on the thriving black market. Others make their own moonshine alcohol in illegal stills, although these have recently become the targets of police raids...
...once a two-plus martini milieu in which to cut a deal or woo a client. Now trust is more often won by a show of efficiency and orders for monkfish and mineral water. Water snobbery has replaced wine snobbery as the latest noon-hour recreation. People order their eau by brand name, as they once did Scotch. The fastidious will not take it on the rocks, because ice bruises the bubbles. Only aspiring starlets drink Perrier ("designer water," sniff detractors). Evian is Hollywood's chic refresher, and the hottest innovation of all is Cit-Jet, a pressurized...
...contest sponsored by the American Water Works Association. To the astonishment of connoisseurs, the three-judge panel turned noses up at New York's crystalline product from the Catskill Mountains and passed over Seattle's melted snow from the Cascade Range. The continent's most perfect eau ordinaire, it decided, was that of New Orleans, whose entry had been drawn from the muddy Mississippi River...
...target of criticism from Catholics who are offended by the crass commercialism of the more than 700 religious souvenir shops, innumerable ice-cream parlors and other tourist businesses that line its narrow streets. Lourdes alarm clocks, fondue sets and cigarette lighters compete for shelf space with bottles of "Eau de Toilette a la Bernadette" (three scents), tin napkin holders depicting Bernadette and the Virgin, and plastic packets of "Lourdes Mints" guaranteed to be made from grotto water...