Word: jerez
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...plaintiffs, four British sherry producers, are demanding that they not be enjoined from using the word "sherry" on their labels The defendants, Pedro Domecq, Gonzalez Byass (Tio Pepe) and two other Spanish sherrymakers, argue that true sherry comes only from the vineyards around the Spanish town of Jerez. Since "sherry" is merely a corruption of "Jerez," they say, it ought to be reserved for the Jerez product, just as British courts have reserved the name "champagne" for France's Champagne district...
...Spanish city in the grape country around Cadiz. On the dusty railroad platform, the stationmaster nervously paced back and forth waiting for the expected passengers, seasonal workers who commute to their jobs in the vineyards. But scarcely a soul showed up at the station, for in Sanlucar and nearby Jerez de la Frontera 3,900 workers were out on strike for a $2.50 daily wage (a 50? boost), portal-to-portal pay between the vineyard and home, and two-not one-daily cigars, the slang word for the workers' traditional 20-minute siesta...
...regime are anxiously trying to improve labor conditions. The Labor Ministry is preparing a bill to legalize "labor" strikes (as distinct from "political" strikes). Another measure of the regime's concern was the swift settlement of last week's trouble among the vineyard workers of Sanlucar and Jerez. As soon as word of the work stoppage was flashed to Madrid, a Labor Ministry official raced to Cadiz and pressured vineyard employers into bowing to most of the worker demands, including more centimes as well as the second cigar...
...every nation soon to be trodden neath the iron heel of Hitler was openly smiling on the totalitarian crusade against democracy in Spain." Bowers writes much better when he is telling of his prewar rambles around the Spain he loved so well: Holy Week in Seville, wine-tasting in Jerez de la Frontera, a fiesta in Toledo, the running of the bulls in the streets of Pamplona...
...Lexicographer Partridge "no word is a mere word." Words, says he, become the "mirror of society and the index of civilization." * Sometimes a word travels as far as history itself. Sherry was "the wine of Jerez," cambric the "linen made at Cambrai," and tobacco the product of the West Indian island of Tobago...