Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Course. Away from boats and drawing board, Uffa Fox pounded out a series of brisk, popular how-to-do-it books on sailing that immensely boosted the sport's popularity. For all his success, Uffa's carefree bookkeeping and happy-go-lucky pub-crawling soon separated him from both wife and boatyard. In World War II. though, he became the Air Ministry's darling when he conjured up a parachuting, self-righting, self-bailing life raft for airmen downed at sea. He demonstrated its effectiveness one midwinter day by stripping before startled British brass and leaping into...
Bronze-Age Bar. The palace was well looted when it was burned, but smaller structures built on its ruins were destroyed without looting. Most interesting was a row of little shops. One was a Bronze Age pub with sunken vats for the wine supply and a lavish supply of glasses for serving the customers. It also had knucklebones, a gambling game that did the duty of a modern bar's chuck-a-luck...
...instance. In all of 319 there is not one picture of a lecture or a tutorial session. Except for a section near the beginning labeled "Faculty," and various academic distinctions after the names of certain seniors, there is no real evidence that the university is not one gigantic pub. The fact that retiring Samuel Eliot Morison had his name over another man's picture lends a convincing ring to this impression...
Between London pub rounds, he lived in Laugharne, a silted-up old South Wales cockle port, bright with pink-washed cottages, near where he used to visit his grandfather as a boy. Life at Laugharne seemed to suit him. He played with his three children, visited his parents, who lived in the same village, cut his daily beer intake to ten pints. "It's lovely, on the sea," he said. "You can spit right into the sea from our window, and we frequently do - all the time, in fact. I potter in the morning. I'm a very...
...short street, and it takes hours to get from one end to the other. I stop at the pub and get back for lunch. In the after noon there's nothing to do, so I work." About Danny Boy. The Thomas legend will be enhanced by the three chapters from Adventures in the Skin Trade, and the 20 stories published with them. Many a poet, when he writes prose, sounds as stodgy as a beached carp, but Thomas easily swam through prose, with a flashing of fins and a show of unexpected twists that could have made him famous...