Word: grapes
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State of Siege. One night, in a village restaurant between the Black Sea and Ankara, my dinner was interrupted by a group of grizzled oldsters drinking raki (grape brandy). One called across the smoky room: "When are you Americans going to stop the Russians?" No country in the West so deeply hates and fears the Russians. Turkey lives in a state of siege. Russian propagandists have been claiming Turkey's eastern provinces for the Soviet motherland. Radio Sofia purrs the happy lot of Bulgaria's Turkish minority; Radio Azerbaijan calls on all Kurds, including Turkey...
...harvesting of the bumper California raisin grape crop, which just ended, was good news last week for pigs, but bad news for taxpayers. The pigs will get most of the surplus raisins for fodder, and the taxpayers will get a bill for about $5,000,000. This giveaway program, just like the expensive program in potatoes and flaxseed, is the result of Congress' love for price supports...
...nights later, after downing four predinner shots of bourbon at a Syrian home, Coates danced the dubbke ("No serious threat to the samba," he told his readers). He put away exotic dishes ranging from kibbee (lamb cake) and yabrac (grape leaves) to baklawa (pastry...
Last week, Moscow had some news that would have horrified Dom Pérignon. Triumphantly the Wine Industry Administration announced that it had discovered a Stakhanovite process for making champagne which would bring it from grape to palate in 45 days...
Pisco, a powerful grape brandy, is a Peruvian national institution. Haughty hacendados and barefoot Indian peasants swig it at births and wakes; special bottles are kept tucked away for anniversaries and visits from old friends. Its type and flavor depend largely on the grapes from which it is made; Peruvians say they can tell something about a man's character by the type he orders...