Word: claret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the influence of a prodigious assortment of Christmas bottles-ginger wine, Irish whisky, Portuguese claret, South African sherry, rum, port, eggnog, "Pineapple Fortified" and ale-Sandra is provided with a bit of past for her future...
...Breed. Yesterday's sports sections bristled with evasions of perfectly useful words: four-ply wallop for homerun, apple for baseball, henhouse hoist for foul ball. When athletes were injured, claret flowed, not blood. On one occasion, the Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward, outraged at receipt of a story in which some ballplayer "belted" a homerun, whipped off his own belt, waved it before the eyes of the transgressor, and bellowed: "Did you ever see anyone hit a baseball with one of these...
...Bond Street offices of London's famed wine merchants, Justerini & Brooks, a member of the firm winced as he recalled the time an American matron served him a chilled claret. "Unfortunately," he said, "my hostess saw my grimace and quickly apologized, explaining that the butler must have left the bottle in the refrigerator too long. What can you do with people like that but sell them whisky...
...visits London in 1772 without his wife, he is tempted by "a variety of fine girls, genteelly dressed, all wearing Venus's girdle, all inviting me to amorous intercourse." But with a heroic mustering of conscience, he resists the flourish of strumpets and confines himself to conversation and claret...