Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour after surgery (for hernia) Winston Churchill demanded, and got, a whiskey-&-soda and a cigar. Two days later wife Clementine reported he was "very chirpy. . . . In fact, the great trouble is to keep him . . . from being too chirpy...
...demonstrate and stir up interest. There are now some 130 college billiard teams (including Cornell, Princeton, Ohio State). The current champion: University of Minnesota. This summer B-B-C will open its first model billiard room in the Midwest. It will have air conditioning, indirect lighting and a swanky soda...
...last week, every Mexican knew that the foot-&-mouth war was on. Motoring city folk met it on the highways where olive-grey-clad soldiers had set up roadblocks. Cars were stopped while passengers tramped through a box filled with caustic soda-saturated sawdust. Then the cars slushed through a cement tank of the solution. Far & wide over the area of battle* Army planes patrolled, spotting cattle for ground troops. Once found, the beasts were slaughtered and quickly buried. In the costly offensive against aftosa-foot-&-mouth disease-there could be no quarter...
Died. Franz Seldte, 64, one-armed German soda-pop manufacturer who founded the powerful (one million members) pre-Hitler Stahlhelm veterans' group, later Nazi Minister of Labor; of dropsy, in a Nürnberg prison, where he was awaiting trial for his wartime role in the slave-labor program...
...beer drinker would have thought nothing of this had not the rye-and-soda man pencilled an "A" at one end of the curve and an "E" at the other. At the high point he put "C" and elsewhere symbols ranging from A minus to D minus...