Word: literalism
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Pumping harder, Allen faced a new danger-dehydration. Sweating profusely inside his humid enclosed compartment, he drained his two-liter water bottle. His radio's batteries also wore down; Allen could hear messages through his earplugs but could not send off replies. As Albatross dipped to within 6 in. of the swells, an exhausted Allen waved in defeat at a rescue craft, signaling for a line that might have provided an airborne tow for the remaining eight miles...
...half-liter bottle, beer in West Germany is priced 25% lower than mineral water or fruit juice. Still, several big brewers have been selling beer at a loss in selected markets, only to find that many Germans regard inexpensive beer as, well, cheap. Despite the interest in fitness, the light Diät beers some brewers have introduced have flopped. Germans do not like their beer to be as robust as they used to; brands with alcohol content close to 6% are fading, and the typical beer is now 4.2% alcohol; but even those brews are more potent than...
...grow in cartons. More than 4,000 farmhouses offer bed, breakfast and participation in farm life, all for between $5 and $8 a day. Village pubs serve solid, inexpensive fare, but some farmhouses allow guests to cook simple meals. The light white Austrian wine goes for $2 a two-liter bottle...
Germany, where $1 buys about 2.10 deutsche marks today, vs. four marks a decade ago, has become almost as expensive for the American as Tokyo. Beef is twice as expensive as it is in the U.S. Even in once cheap Munich, the famed liter, or Mass, of beer at Hofbräuhaus has quintupled in price since...
Certain terms, of course, may become quaint, but will always be irreplaceable. Pound cake will remain just that, no matter how many grams the ingredients weigh. A miss will never be as good as a kilometer; no Texan is likely to wear a 38-liter hat. In some cases, neither form of measurement matters much. The day that hell freezes over, whether it happens in Celsius (0°) or Fahrenheit (32°), it will still rate a TIME cover...