Word: strongbow
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...drink Magners, C&C successfully ventured into Northern Ireland in 1999. It conquered Scotland in 2004 and 2005, hit London in 2005 and took on the rest of England in 2006. British rivals maintain that C&C is just riding a wave of popularity, not creating it. Sales of Strongbow, an S&N brand that boasts a 60% share of the U.K. cider market, have grown consistently for four years, the company says. Analyst O'Reilly disagrees, calculating that more than 70% of cider's recent growth is attributable to Magners. Certainly, rivals have dashed to bring out their...
...this to-do is Milton Berle, a jack-of-all-turns vaudeville comic who has gone into television... His show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven volley of one-line gags; with expert timing and tireless bounce, he also hurls his whole 6 feet and 191 dieted pounds into every act of his show. His motto is still "anything for a laugh"--and practically anything he does gets...