Word: schwarz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picked a film playing near by. The movie business was not the only one making money from the picture, however. Stores selling Jedi toys, books and T shirts were also busy. "Return of the Jedi items are flying out of here," said Marian Every, manager of an F.A.O. Schwarz toy store in Washington. Pepperidge Farm reported brisk sales of Jedi cookies: chocolate for the villains, vanilla for the good guys and peanut butter for the robots and assorted fuzzy-wuzzies...
...Jewish people." If Wiesel's literary career had ended with Night, he would still have earned an international reputation as a founder of Holocaust literature. Once the novel was published, others dared to speak out: Nelly Sachs' laments were carried in O the Chimneys; André Schwarz-Bart chronicled The Last of the Just; Jerzy Kosinski described The Painted Bird. Wiesel himself was set free; his other books rushed into print: Dawn, The Accident, The Town Beyond the Wall, The Gates of the Forest, A Beggar in Jerusalem...
...mulberry family. Hops are used to give beer its distinctive and some times bitter flavor, and during the past ten years U.S. brewers have cut back by about 15% on the ingredient in nearly all their brands. Explains Leo Bernstein, vice president and director of laboratories for Schwarz Services International, a Connecticut consulting firm that works with breweries around the world: "Lighter beer was a marketing decision when American brewers wanted to enlarge the market by making a beer you could drink a lot of. With German beers, you can't drink so much or the bitterness will make...
...Schwarz Services also fields panels of taste testers who sample beer from store shelves and report their findings to a client's management. The trained tasters must first prove themselves by passing a barrage of tests that include sipping different quinine solutions and ranking them by strength...
Rubik also has come out with Son of Cube, a three-dimensional twister called the Magic Snake, which can assume the shape of a swan, saxophone or steamroller. F.A.O. Schwarz, New York City's premier toy store, sold out its initial shipment of 864 Snakes in a week. Copy-cubers have devised multicolored variations of Rubik's baffler in the shape of pyramids, octagons and cylinders. A new puzzle marketed in France called the Tower of Babel has sold 600,000 copies in three months at a price of about...