Word: jugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe. German, Italian, French and Russian compositions make up the bulk of the standard repertory. But British music-with a rich tradition stretching from Tudor church composers like William Byrd to innovative moderns like Peter Maxwell Davies-is patronized as a national school, a sort of cultural Toby-jug collection, of interest chiefly to natives and diehard Anglophiles elsewhere...
...Marine named James Hopkins crashed his Jeep into the lobby of a West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital and blasted away at the walls with a pistol and rifle, screaming that he was losing his mind because of Agent Orange. Two months later, he was found dead with a jug of whisky and an empty pill bottle beside him. A former artillery sergeant, Steve Androff, 33, went on last week with a fast he began on May 27 in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. It is a vet's version of the I.R.A. protest, designed to coerce...
...loaf of bread, a jug of wine and Di [April...
...with commemorative thimbles and dry royal couple plates with royal couple tea towels, a steal at $3.30. Smokers can light up with Charles and Diana lighters and extinguish butts in C & D ash trays. Tea drinkers can sip from a C & D mug, pour cream from a C & D jug, add sugar with a keepsake teaspoon. Di fans can purchase a copy of her famous décolleté dress for $150-one-tenth the price of the original-and store it on a Lady Di hanger. For fun, there is a crossword puzzle with answers that form a princely...
...Germans call it Schmiergeld (grease money), though export traders usually simply say N.A. for niitzliche Abgabe (useful contribution). In France, where there is veritas in the vino, a payoff is called a pot-de-vin or jug of wine. The Italians refer to a bribe as a bustarella (little envelope). Under-the-table payments in East Africa go by the sobriquet chai, Swahili...