Word: dine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nelson Mandela has arrived at an estate in the wine country outside Cape Town where he will dine and speak on economic reconstruction to 75 mostly white businessmen and bankers. He receives a standing ovation. Politely acknowledging the applause, he samples a glass of sweet Weisser Riesling 1993 and jokes about his lack of vinous sophistication. During his last days in prison, he says, he was permitted to have visitors for relatively luxurious meals, and his warder once told him the best wines were dry. "I thought every wine was wet," Mandela says now with a laugh. Not long...
ALMOST 90 YEARS AGO, AN ENGLISHWOMAN NAMED ELINOR Glyn wrote a racy best seller called Three Weeks that had it all: Venice! Illicit passion! Making out on a tiger-skin rug! Eventually, inevitably, she was invited to Hollywood to write screenplays and dine out. At some point in her stay the industry entered one of its periods of uncertainty-or perhaps one should say one of its periods of more-than-usual uncertainty-and someone asked Madame Glyn what she thought might happen next. "Whatever will make the most money," she sagaciously replied...
...firm's survey will affect "longer range strategic goals [of the Dining Services]," Berry said. It will also explore the possibility of using student ID cards to dine off campus...
...aficionado of Harvard! I do my best to keep up--so far this school year, I have attended eleven inter-colliegiate athletic competitions in six sports. I do walk the Yard whenever I am in Boston and often dine at Lowell or Eliot...
...begin by saying that I'm so glad I finally picked up a copy of this leaflet. I didn't even realize it, but I've been sexually harassed--twice. Before I got my mint green copy of "Tell Someone," I didn't know that mere invitations to dine with a professor--delivered without any physical action, veiled threat or crude innuendo--could constitute harassment...