Word: blance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bound from Istres, France to Udine, Italy, an American C-47 splintered against the 6,600-ft. peak of Cheval Blanc Mountain, killed the crew of four, three American wives and five children on the last leg of a journey to join husbands and fathers stationed in Trieste...
Quality. Finally they gave their verdict. Top honors went to a small, little-known winery: Wente Bros. It won gold medals for its Pinot-Chardonnay, sweet sauterne, Sauvignon Blanc, Ugni Blanc and Sweet Semillon. For the brothers, these were heady dividends on their policy of quality rather than quantity...
...bright, and distant Mont Blanc was clearly visible to the delegates in Geneva last week. They were in town for the long-awaited International Trade Organization preparatory conference on breaking down trade barriers. Inside the huge Palais des Nations, the visibility was much lower. A procedural matter got the Americans and the British snarled up right away...
...Lucy Barton," says tactful Biographer Terhune, "was doubtless attractive; but she lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...
...almost like the old days when Howie Morenz roamed the ice, and the loyal hockey fans, who called themselves les millionaires, sat in the Montreal Forum's cheap seats, wearing white woolen caps, drinking whiskey blanc and chanting piously, "Les Canadiens sont là" (The Canadiens are right in there). Now the cheap seats had gone and with them les millionaires, but Montreal showed last week that it still knew how to encourage its heroes...