Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again, a cause. But he killed himself the hardest way there is. He had to make his decision every second of the 66 days: around him men ate three times a day, and before long the food at Long Kesh prison must have looked like the sturdiest pub fare. Bobby Sands said no, said it every day, while his body ate itself, till he went from 155 pounds to less than 80. Those who saw his body, and there were thousands who filed through the parlor of his project home, said two Bobby Sands could have fit in the coffin...
Among the few happy consequences: after 4-ft. snowdrifts prevented a christening at a Devon church, the vicar made his way to the local pub, where the postchristening celebrations were to have been held. The baby was baptized right there, over a champagne bucket...
...touchdown, a moment watched by tens of millions of television viewers in the U.S. and perhaps hundreds of millions more round the world, Americans seemed to go into orbit themselves. "Terrific!" shouted Dennis O'Connell, a truck driver from Queens, N.Y., as he paused in a Manhattan pub to watch the landing. "It shows everybody we're still No. 1." Mrs. Alicia Hoerter, a Louisville grandmother, could barely contain her excitement or her puns. "Columbia, the gem of a notion!" she exulted. "First, it's a rocket, then it's a spaceship, then...
...crowd around the hospital apparently threw a firecracker in the vicinity of the limousine. The effect on those within the vehicle-Secret Service agents as well as the family-was instant. Deep down, personal alarms went off, reminding all of them once more of the hazards that attend high pub lic positions. The bulletproof limousine was virtually impervious to firearms. But the fear aroused by that sudden explosion was another lesson in just how much modern leadership depends on the well-being of the people involved and how their minds are refocused, often involuntarily, from extreme stress...
...copies of the Duffy movie bars are dispensing drama and drinks (and pizza and pepperoni) in East Hartford and North Haven, Conn. The Poor Richard's Pub and Cinemas were also started by two brothers, Richard and Rene Dupuis, 45 and 35, who wanted to branch out of their family charter bus business. They too will open more. Says Rene: "A young couple can go out, see a movie, have a pitcher of beer, a couple of sandwiches and a box of popcorn for under $10. There aren't many places left like that...