Word: cruse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When he returned to Harvard he made a decision that had been forming for some time: he converted to Christianity. He now keeps a Bible in his office bookcase and frequently alludes to little-known passages, including one from the Book of Kings about a widow who had a cruse of oil that never ran out. In the U.S. today, he adds grimly, "There is no widow's cruse...
Alex Haley and the TV producers had the Lome Greene character farming cotton in Spotsylvania County, Va.; it should have been tobacco. Harold Cruse, author of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, observes: "When you see Leslie Uggams and her long polished nails, you just have to laugh." Although Cruse liked Roots, he thought "the ending was contrived, commercialized and romanticized. For one thing, under those conditions, you don't just tie up a plantation owner to a tree and then get into a wagon and casually drive away as if there weren't bloodhounds and night riders...
...most celebrated of the defendants was Lionel Cruse, head of the 155-year-old firm of Cruse et Fils Freres. When the scandal broke in June 1973, it was quickly dubbed the "Winegate" affair by French papers. Protesting his innocence, Cruse shot back in righteous anger: "You'll see, I'll be the Nixon of Bordeaux." That prediction turned out to be more accurate than he could have possibly wished. Last week, in a criminal court, Cruse, his cousin Yvan, a freewheeling wine broker named Pierre Bert and 15 lesser merchants were on trial, charged with falsifying labels...
Later in the trial, a government fraud inspector testified that the house of Cruse had also stretched real Bordeaux by mixing it with low-class Midi red. A truck driver who frequently drove from Bert's warehouse to the Cruse cellars admitted that he had switched papers to disguise the origin of the cheap red Midi wine. Still another witness was a lawyer for le fisc (the French income tax office), who asked that the court fine the defendants $18 million for cheating the government...
...defendants were accused of mislabeling about 1.8 million bottles of Bordeaux wines with the intention of selling them. Cruse claims that all the wine was confiscated by inspectors, and the chances are that none of it ever went on sale. Nonetheless, a number of Bordeaux merchants are worried about adverse publicity. After all, there are fresh memories of the notorious Vino Ferrari scandal of 1968, when Italian inspectors discovered that millions of quarts of red wine had been made from banana paste, tar acid, seaweed and other strange ingredients. It took the Italians five years to recover from that public...