Word: soda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't understand these details until I started vending two seasons ago. I thought then that ball park selling wasn't much of an occupation. I figured that Phillies fans would be clamoring for my soda, my pockets bulging with change...
...simple kind of barter deal is one arranged recently by a Midwestern container manufacturer. He had a batch of beer and soda cans ready to market, but no paint for them. He called a paint maker who had no drums in which to ship. The can maker also manufactured drums, so in effect he delivered drums in part payment for paint...
...first encountered the Reverend one dusty day when we needed something cool to drink. He was napping on the bench in front of the grocery, fishing cap down over age-browned eyes. "Orange soda?" he says as he hands up the bottles from the panting cooler, and if you encourage him he begins telling stories from the Bible, and talking in general about the state of the world. He believes that TV faked the moon landings. We react like Zarathustra, thinking to himself, could it be that this hermit, here in his woods, has not yet heard that...
...living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts become more numerous, and further on there is a hint of the nearing metropolis in the frantic crowds of women and children who descend upon the bus at every stop trying to sell meager greasy pastries and bottles of sugary soda. The road continues on through the stark plateau...
...white electric fans to cool us in the sultry August heat of southern China. The hotel had brought in several bunches of bananas, bowls of filterless cigarettes that look like Pall Malls, three or four cases of cold beer and an equal number of cases of cold orange soda, called "chii-shui" (chee-schway), the favorite Chinese soft drink. There was hot sugarless tea for those who preferred it. It cools you off much better than beer or soda...