Word: uncork
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...tiny step towards a university more based on human exchanges. We students have a lot to offer, and are only here for a few years before rushing off to very different climes. Here’s hoping you join us in the dining halls. Not just when we uncork the wine for you, but regularly...
Sonja jumps up, and is soon back with a French bottle. Gerlinde fetches glasses and proceeds to uncork the champagne with a confident hand. I am still a little surprised: at the early hour for champagne, and at the friendly atmosphere of this motley group...
...attention to food and drink, to cassoulets "humming with the promise of cholesterol." After all, this is the man who spent a good part of Encore Provence searching for the perfect corkscrew. But while he's caressing every grape and truffle, his half-baked caper plot runs on autopilot. Uncork his new book? If you must, but only if there's nothing more bubbly at hand. This one is vin ordinaire...
...making "unfounded" charges about the integrity of Blair and his aides and then not correcting them or even properly investigating the government's repeated complaints. "We expect we can get back on the front foot pretty quickly," says a senior Blair aide, with ministers planning to uncork what they hope will be popular initiatives on crime and health care. But Blair will not be able to change the subject or make a case for re-election next year...
...forces and rebellious Kurds, Baker's promise was enough to persuade Saddam to hold back during Desert Storm. Now that the current Administration has declared that regime change is its goal, he may not feel so gun-shy. Western military officials and longtime Saddam watchers suggest he won't uncork his deadliest weapons if he calculates that he can survive the U.S. onslaught. "Survival is his objective," says a British official. But he knows that if the U.S. launches an attack, he is target No. 1. Says a senior U.S. intelligence official: "There's absolutely no doubt that Saddam will...