Word: cognac
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Born: Nov. 5, 1919 in Paris, son of a wealthy mining engineer and heir to rich estates in the cognac-producing department of the Charente, north of Bordeaux...
...Mikoyan of 1957 can still turn on joviality like tap water, laugh off Khrushchev's blunted barbs, and knock back bottoms-up toasts in the Armenian cognac he calls "best on earth." He remains the Kremlin's jauntiest dresser and spriest waltzer. His wife Anush (whom he found in Rostov's Armenian colony just after the revolution) calls him babnik, which means flatterer. She once declared that he was one of only two hand-kissing, courtly gentlemen in Moscow (the other: Lavrenty Beria). They have four sons (another was killed in World...
...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...