Word: vended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liquor store has displaced the tavern as the principal purveyor of wine and spirits; grocery stores now vend 80% of the nation's beer. Another way of saying this is that most U.S. drinking-about seven-tenths of it-now takes place in the home. Male drinkers still predominate, 77% to 60%, but the ladies' preference for lighter drinks and their sheer presence, has put a governor on the drinking capacities and intentions of the surrounding males...
...tolerant of those who could be received at Versailles, but he drew the line at sodomy and laughing too loudly at Mass. The laughter he suppressed, but there was nothing much he could do about sodomy, since his brother, the Due d'Orleans, and his best general, old Vendóme, were notorious sodomites. The black arts were another thing Louis frowned on. Witchcraft, magic, and a Parisian underworld of pimps and professional poisoners had been involved in a plot to eclipse the Sun King...
...setting could scarcely have been better for his purposes: four Western departments (Vendée, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne and Sarthe), all warmly Gaullist, all heavily Catholic, all refreshingly rural. Sun and showers alternately splashed the meadows as the presidential cortege-a mile-long column of black limousines punctuated by thundering motorcycles-struck sonorously past ranks of poplars and blue-legged gendarmes. In village after village, De Gaulle repeated the tried and true routine: a ritual exchange with the awed mayor, a Lyndon-like lunge into the thicket of outstretched hands, a brief utterance from the bunting-draped platform, then...
...liveliest battle is being waged in France, where Democrat Alfred Davidson and Republican Evan Galbraith have signed up for a debate at the American Art Students League. Johnson headquarters are in a handsome, red-carpeted apartment on the Place Vendóme, where Chairman Davidson has received more inquiries about who gets the apartment after the campaign is over than anything else. The Johnson committee in Paris includes Novelists James Baldwin, Mary McCarthy and James Jones, as well as lawyers, journalists, businessmen and the wives of OECD and UNESCO officials...
...Elegance." What's elegance all about? Well, her list of examples, reading like half a dozen extra choruses of Cole Porter's You're the Top, offers the palm to such persons and things as the philosophy of Plato, the Ferrari automobile, Tolstoy, the Place Vendôme in Paris, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, the skyscraper, the model T Ford, and Gary Cooper. Noticeably absent was Mrs. Guinness herself-who is about as elegant as they come...