Word: ciders
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...Calvados, beside the hawthorne hedges, the farmers of Normandy stand with their families waving at every passing vehicle that throws dust into their faces. In the towns the Tricolor waves from nearly every building, the statues are decorated with American and British flags, and the townspeople take wine and cider to the soldiers who stop their trucks and jeeps in the streets. Seeing these things, you could be carried away by sentiment and say that the oppressed French are welcoming their liberators with tears of joy. But that would not be the whole truth...
...cider-drinking oldster saying "We never thought you would come. I
was in bed with my wife when we heard the bombardment. I said to her,
we can die downstairs or we can die upstairs. We may just as well die
in bed!"
...Early Americans drank beer and cider copiously, avoided water like the plague, which they believed it carried...
...hundred years ago, one of the first credit correspondents in the U.S. reported to the Mercantile Agency that Peddler James Sampson "drinks two glasses of cider brandy [applejack], plain, every morning and evening-never more; has lost a large double tooth on lower jaw, back, second from throat on left side; has a scar an inch long on his left leg kneepan; cause: cut himself with a hatchet when only three years old." Credit sleuths have been weighing financial responsibility with the most intimate details of a man's personal life ever since...
...Witch (United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve this cider-&-absinthe cocktail make it more than easy to take...