Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swim, four out of ten bowl and the same number play golf, and 34% belong to a country club or other sporting club. And TIME families are hospitable, too. In the two weeks before the questionnaires were sent, 74% entertained guests in their home; 81% serve liquor, with Scotch, gin, bourbon and vodka the preferred drinks...
Guests at last week's National Day receptions were struck by the difference from previous celebrations. Instead of the Scotch and gin of yesteryear, only Chinese rice wine was served at most places, though a few embassies offered a throat-searing liquor called...
Palace and hovel, ships, torches, caves, rocky passes, thunderstorms, primeval forest, a chorus of "unborn children." The whole idea for a new opera called Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) so excited Richard Strauss that he wanted to be gin composing right on the spot. That was in 1911. It was eight years, however, before the shadow became a reality, and then, despite wide critical acclaim, it was 40 years more before it was staged in the U.S. Trouble was, with all those ships and rocky passes, the technical demands of the fanciful libretto were more than...
...interested in opera. Their first night at the Met, a pair of opera glasses fell out of a box above them and hit Gimbel on the foot. "If that had been my head, I would have been killed," he said. "Opera is too dangerous." Instead he settled for gin rummy, frequent trips to nearby race tracks with such intimates as Toymaker Louis Marx, and daily sessions at the Biltmore Hotel steam baths, where Gimbel, even as a septuagenarian, impressed friends by swimming the 35-ft. length of the pool underwater...
Dutch workers have spent their extra pay on high living. Per-capita TV purchases are higher in The Netherlands than almost anywhere else in Europe. Per-capita consumption of jenever, the Dutch gin, and of beer and wine has jumped 50% . AMSTERDAM SWINGS Too, boasted a Dutch newspaper, reporting the Carnaby Street look among the city's towheaded boys and miniskirted girls. Demand for consumer goods has set trade figures whirling like windmills. A Dutch surplus of $14 million in trade with West Germany during the first half of 1965 has turned into a $74 million edge...