Word: minting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comparison with many other nations where drinking is deeply woven into the fabric of social life. Changes now are also visible abroad. Thanks to a government sobriety pitch and a burgeoning fitness trend, in 1984 French consumption of table wine was down 4% from the year before. Diabolo Menthe (mint-flavored fizzy lemonade) and Brut de Pomme (a cider) are the latest nonalcoholic quaffs at cafes. "People used to drink wine with their meals as a matter of course," Claude Vilain, of France's Committee for Health Education, says. "Now it's something for weekends and guests." Perhaps, but whiskey...
...took advantage of the favorable rates to buy a dressing table for her new apartment. "I searched one of the famous Parisian flea markets for an antique coiffeuse," she says. "It is precisely what I wanted: a place to fix my coiffure. I found one 19th century piece in mint condition and at a good price, but it had just been bought by another American, who was paying an additional $500 to ship it to New York. Maybe the exchange rate is getting a little too favorable." Phillips, a budding oenophile, is hoping the healthy dollar will help expand another...
...took advantage of the favorable rates to buy a dressing table for her new apartment. "I searched one of the famous Parisian flea markets for an antique coiffeuse," she says. "It is precisely what I wanted: a place to fix my coiffure. I found one 19th century piece in mint condition and at a good price, but it had just been bought by another American, who was paying an additional $500 to ship it to New York. Maybe the exchange rate is getting a little too favorable." Phillips, a budding oenophile, is hoping the healthy dollar will help expand another...
...Wait, Wanda! I want to say a word about retroendorsements. You know what I mean--endorsements that might have been if other people had been as alert as Gerry. I'm thinking of Abe Lincoln for Log Cabin syrup, Torquemada for flame-broiled whoppers or Judas Iscariot for Franklin Mint silver coins. With artistic control, Judas wouldn't actually have to hold the coins up or anything. His kids could be shown flipping them casually in the background among the Roman soldiers...
...Thousands of raving, stumbling drunks, getting angrier and angrier they lose more an more money. By midafternoon they'll be gazzling mint with both hands and vomiting on each other between races. The whole place will be jammed with bodies, shoulder shoulder. It's hard to move around. The aisles will be stick with vomit, people falling down and grabbing at your legs to keep from getting stomped. Drunks passing on themselves in the betting lines. Dropping handfuls of money and fighting to stoop over and pick it up. Hunter S. Thompson. "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved...