Word: claret
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...highly secret negotiations, France's Beaumont family, which has owned the vineyard since 1670, is wrapping up the final details of a deal that would give co-ownership of Chateau Latour and its annual output of precious claret to Britain's Harvey's of Bristol Ltd. And as a world-girdling distributor of wine and spirits, Harvey's has no intention of sharing its cup with the middlemen of Bordeaux...
...quiet voice on the BBC announced that Tom Curtal was dead. In his darkened study, over a supper of claret and dry biscuits, 79-year-old Graham Stanhope was at first shocked, then breathed in relief, "Thank God! Thank God!" With Curtal dead. Stanhope became Britain's unchallenged grand old man of letters...
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...