Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automobile, often requesting to drive; wake their owners in the middle of the night with loud snoring and blowing bubbles in the toilet bowl; are first to their master's bed and never give up the pillow; and when you take them down to the local tavern for a beer, they drool in their Budweiser...
...brogue to keep you company. It may be hereditary (no one, not even Captain Kangaroo, has fully explored the properties of green genes), ethnocultural (Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the noted ethnicist and cream-pie connoisseur, spent a good part of his early life treading the boards at his mother's tavern in Hell's Kitchen), or just environmental (Euell Gibbons used to mix terrible daiquiris, they say). Whatever, it's a scientific fact that Irishmen make the best bartenders...
Henry IV Part I is not just wars or Elizabethan society or how wisdom can come from as unlikely a place as a tavern named the Boar's Head or from the mouth of as unlikely a character as the greedy, lusty, lazy, altogether charming Falstaff. It is basically how a prince becomes a king or, even more basically, how a boy grows up. By the time Shakespeare's play opens at the Loeb December 11, the skill of director George Hamlin will probably have worked to weld all the wicked plots and counterplots of the smaller schemes of things...
George Mason traveled to Williamsburg by carriage in 1776 to deliver his Virginia Declaration of Rights to the House of Burgesses; Patrick Henry conducted his late-night debates at the King's Arms Tavern by the flickering glow of candlelight. Today's visitors to Colonial Williamsburg explore the nation's oldest and most ambitious historical restoration in shuttle buses and relax in air-conditioned rooms with electric light. But the 20th century comforts carry an inflated modern price tag-and so, in Bicentennial 1976 of all years, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which runs the restoration, suffered...
...President Ford's former campaign manager, said Nixon had "shown a contriteness that I had not expected." To Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Rick Shelby, Nixon was "candid and forthright about the mistakes he obviously made. We saw a side of Nixon we'd never seen before." Norfolk Tavern Owner Foster Strickland summed up the mixed feelings: "If he had a flat tire, I'd stop and help him fix it, but I don't think I would ever vote...