Word: soda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brain child of Rogers E.M. Whitaker, who has himself bumpety-thumped across 2,334,000 miles of rails from Moscow, Russia to Moscow, Ill. By inventing Frimbo-lexicographer, gourmet, jazz fan, connoisseur of contessas and, of course, compulsive investigator of trains-Whitaker has transmuted what might have been a soda-water sermon on the glory and decline of the trains into a Jules Vernean adventure that takes him from the Casbah to the Caspian Sea, Buffalo to Kyoto...
...eight of the ten most populous. Democrats also gained control of eight additional state legislatures, upping their total to 36. No wonder that when one top adviser to President Gerald Ford was asked for his reaction to the election results, his response was to gulp down a bicarbonate of soda. Two other White House aides tried to come up with some heartening words for reporters, then glumly agreed on the obvious: "Just say that we took a beating...
Each year the dean's office budgets $4 per freshman for the purchase of beer and soda--but not for wine--a Yard proctor said yesterday...
Chicken for 28? per Ib. Five pounds of flour for 48?. Six bottles of soda for 38?. A decade ago? A generation ago? No, this month in Atlanta, where the Richway food stores rolled back prices in the hope of attracting some attention...
...without thinking about the price. The customers were smiling in Atlanta, something few Americans have done in grocery stores for years. But with the sale over, reality - and inflation - returned. Chicken was going for 54? per Ib., five pounds of flour for 98?, and a six-pack of soda...