Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last one -- Keith, or Ken?" Their bemused father cannot tell them apart at family gatherings. As for the patriarch's grandchildren, they "seem to belong to a new national type, with round heads, and quite large front teeth. You would think some Swede or other had been around Montreal on a bicycle so as to create this new national type...
...persistent is the plight of small children in Home Truths that the reader may fairly guess at some trauma glimpsed or experienced during the author's childhood in Montreal. In Orphans' Progress, for example, two wretched little girls are locked up in a French-Canadian convent school. Eight-year-old Mildred and twelve-year-old Cathie are bathed every two weeks, the one wearing a rubber apron and the other a muslin shift so they cannot see their own bodies. The state of Mildred's thumb tells it all: "Sucked white, (it) was taped to the palm of her hand...
...person in 1980 to 35.1 gal. in 1984--despite the introduction of low-alcohol brews like Anheuser-Busch's year-old LA. Wine growth, which experienced significant leaps in the 1970s, has slowed. One reason: the industry was late in developing softer lines. The Seagram Co. Ltd., the Montreal-based distillery giant, has become the second- largest American wine producer; it owns both Paul Masson and Taylor wines, along with some 100 other spirits. To woo the yuppie sweet tooth, many distillers are marketing unusual-flavor drinks much lower than liquor in alcohol content. Bailey's Original Irish Cream Liqueur...
...Montreal 4, Atlanta...
Atlanta 6, Montreal...