Word: blanced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other day, officials opened the unclaimed trunk and turned up one of the literary finds of the century. Among the treasures: an original copy of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley; and two possibly unpublished poems by Shelley. Also scattered in the trunk were some 14 letters from Byron, including a complaint that he had picked up another dose of gonorrhea...
...Ronald Reagan's headquarters in Concord's dingy New Hampshire Highway Hotel, confident aides had chilled several bottles of Almadén blanc de blancs champagne for the expected victory party on primary night. The bottles were never opened. Next morning, as the campaign troupe decamped, Ronald Reagan Jr., 17, and other deflated supporters loaded the bubbly aboard the candidate's chartered Boeing 727-just in case there might be reason for popping their corks in Florida, Illinois or the other hard primaries ahead...
...bring them so swiftly. They soon are dumped back into the realities of Detroit and New York. But the memories mingle and linger: supreme of pheasant smitane, Rockefeller, Harriman, Dillon, chestnut mousse, Bob Stack, Nanette Fabray, De La Renta, Alsop, filet of salmon in aspic, Cronkite, Swearingen, Humphrey, Schramsberg blanc de noir, Auchincloss. Watching from the dim corners of the old Decatur House on Lafayette Square, where the ladies went for tea, or inside the stately Anderson House, where Sadat the next day returned the White House favors with a dinner, one could see that a lot of the people...
...Cristina, and Pan American World Airways Chairman William Seawell. Without specifically mentioning the Mayaguez affair, the Shah congratulated the President "for the great leadership and the right decisions that you took for your country." The state dining room rang with applause as the Shah lifted his glass of Schramsberg Blanc de Blanc to Ford...
...evacuate their staff and any French citizens who wanted to leave. Last Monday morning, reported TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, a large group of French and Métis (French Cambodians) gathered in front of the old embassy and stared at the bright travel posters picturing the Eiffel Tower, Mont Blanc and the stained glass windows of the Chartres Cathedral. Many of the evacuees had never been to France, nor did they have relatives or friends there. As the buses pulled away, heading for the airport, the nurses and chauffeurs got back into their cars and drove home to wait...