Word: sip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cola, cherry and cream soda. The commercials stress the theme that, though many people are reluctant to try it, they like it once they take the plunge. Their approaches range from the outrageous (a Latin dictator besieged in his palace by a howling mob demanding that he take a sip) to the smirking (a lothario urging an innocent girl to "come on" try it, while she purrs the puritan objection: "My parents." Not until the end of the commercial is it made entirely clear that they are talking about Dr Pepper...
...space limitations. Some of the more notable ones will be reviewed in these pages in later issues. A cup of coffee can be a pleasant way to end a day or break up an evening's work, and the Square offers some comfortable, quiet places to sip and talk. The Pamplona (on Bow St. next to the Underdog) and the Window Shop (56 Brattle St.) are outdoor cafes--the Pamplona's chocolate mousse is very good. Grendel's Den (on Boylston St. across from the Hungry Persian) is a pleasant basement coffee house with canned music and arab food...
Early one evening last week, Sheik Abeid Karume, 67, the burly, leftist strongman of the spice islands of Zanzibar, sat down to play cards and sip bitter coffee with his cronies in the white-walled building in Zanzibar Town that served as headquarters of his Afro-Shirazi Party. Shortly after sunset, two cars pulled up outside, and four men armed with automatic weapons and revolvers jumped...
...population of the states is illiterate, and women remain in purdah behind grilled windows. But Gulf Aviation's frequent BAC-111 jet flights now link the wealthier states more closely than camels ever did. At the bars in the vast airport terminals, Arab entrepreneurs in long robes sip Scotch to the piped-in music of Ray Charles; porters pause during prayer hours to kneel on the floor facing Mecca...
...early as mid-September, when most other N.B.A. teams were just beginning to loosen up for the coming season, Sharman was already putting his team through long punishing workouts. In the past, the Lakers' exhibition series in Hawaii had been a time to loll on the beach and sip a Mai Tai or two. This season, game or no game, Sharman hustled the team off each morning to a rickety, dimly lit high school gymnasium to sweat for three hours in the tropic heat. "I went to Hawaii with a tan," says Jerry West, "and I came home without...