Word: valentiner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Valentin Korn, 43, for years a producer of unexceptional wines from a small hillside plot, but a vintner with a bright idea of how to make every year a vintage year. Hiring a chemist, he concocted a mixture of two parts grape juice, eight parts water, plus dashes of citric acid, tartaric acid, potash and glycerin. In two years Korn made between 1,500,000 and 4,000,000 quarts. Germans sipped it with satisfaction, noted nothing unusual; neither did the government controllers, who checked it periodically for bouquet and chemical content...
...dictator in student riots and strikes. So concerned was Franco that during the past fortnight his ubiquitous secret police arrested more than a dozen men, mostly young, of good families which earlier supported the Caudillo. Among them were some big names: Millionaire Basque Businessman Antonio Menchaca Careaga, Lawyer Valentin López Aparicio, University Student Ignacio Soleto, nephew of Liberal Leader Dionisio Ridruejo (Franco's propaganda director during the civil war), and Francisco Herrera Oria, widely known liberal Catholic layman and younger brother of the liberal Bishop of Málaga...
...Times Valentin Berezhkov, describing a visit to a Cleveland home, brightened over the "gleaming pots and pans in the spotless little kitchen," and owned up to feeling a "warm regard for this American family...
...Russians were tossed many a question too hot to field. Asked why the Russians jammed Voice of America broadcasts, one of the visitors finally cracked: "It is not worth the bother to liberate us." When an Israeli correspondent asked about the disappearance of several Jewish reporters in Russia, Valentin Mikhailovich Berezhkov, deputy chief editor of the weekly New Times (who with Izakov acted as interpreter for the group), blandly suggested: "Ask Mr. Molotov...
...pelota court is called. Kids clambered in the branches of chest nut trees to get a better view. This was the biggest pelota game of all: the championship match between a team led by Basque Idol Jean Urruty and a team headed by his closest competitor, Spanish Champion Valentin Careaga...