Word: cognac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side of Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, his friend and frequent tennis opponent, was the young man entrusted with saving France from economic folly. Handsome, lanky Félix Gaillard at 37 is France's youngest Finance Minister of the century. A man who comes from the cognac country, wears the Rosette of the Resistance, plays clean classic piano and dirty rock 'n' roll, Politician Gaillard is a man with a mission. For his colleagues he drew a lucid and gloomy picture...
...liquor ad) urged readers: "When tensions build up-take time to relax." National Distillers adopted the slogan "Sip a Little Sunshine, Pardner" for its Old Sunny Brook Brand whisky, recently changed it to "Pour Yourself a Smile. Neighbor" when the Government frowned. The French National Association of Cognac Producers earlier ran a series of U.S. ads describing cognac as the "harbinger of good appetite, a gentle agent to relax tension, a pleasant inducer of euphoria." Though it got no formal Government complaints (the association is technically outside the jurisdiction of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division), it stopped...
...officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar and plenty of caviar and cognac to drive the blues away. Piasecki did his best to sell the Stalinist brand of anti-Catholic Catholicism. But most of the laity and all of the hierarchy stood firm. Today Pax still controls much of its commercial empire and is still in charge of Caritas, the Catholic welfare organization over which...
...pursued by both hell and heaven. Swedish Novelist Sven-Stolpe, 51, a Roman Catholic convert, tells of Edvard Kansdorf, an expatriate middle-aged Swede dying of cancer in Paris. He is a relapsed convert to Catholicism who tries to drown his consciousness as well as his conscience in cognac. The nausea rather than the pain of living makes him almost yearn for death. Around him revolve other people and other lives like planets in a void, always near enough to hail but never near enough to help...
...Foreign Office will give the Queen a platinum watch from Carder's to replace one she lost; Renault will give her a new car-her favorite pastel blue; and the municipality of Paris will crack open an ancient bottle of cognac. There will be-among heaps of succulent goodies at every turn-a seven-layered, 72-lb. cake on a bed of crimson candy roses from the pastry cooks and confectioners of the Société de la Saint-Michel. And for the visiting Queen's own very private use, there will be a single crystal flagon...