Word: vinegar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wines as in art, taste is largely a matter of taste: one person's wine may be another's vinegar. Yet there are at least some widely accepted standards of excellence. To help determine the relative merits of some select wines, TIME's editors gathered connoisseurs of food, drink and other good things in life for a battle of the bottles. The TIME Board of Oenologists met in Manhattan for a comparative tasting of 16 wines-four from France and twelve from California. The board members...
...that meeting, Rickey had also told Robinson that baseballs would be the least lethal things thrown at him if he decided to take the chance Rickey was offering, and then, to be sure Robinson understood what he meant. Rickey uncorked a demi-tasse of the bigot's verbal vinegar and threw it in Robinson's face...
...liquid on the inside and generously filled with diced vegetables, potatoes and ham. The entrees were preceded by a salad (a trick they couldn't have picked up on the continent) made of rubbery, dog-eared lettuce, a slab of cucumber, and an unripe slice of tomato. The simple vinegar and oil dressing was unpleasantly sweetened with pickle relish...
...Refusing vinegar-soaked sponges offered by spectators, saintly Bennett Beach '71 sprinted his way into the hearts of Boston's townspeople yesterday with a sub-three hour performance in the annual Boston Marathon. Competing for the KISKO KIWIS. Beach finished 32 minutes behind winner Olavi Suomalainen of Finland and well ahead of author Erich Segal '58. "He's a brave lad. Ben is," said race coordinator Jock Semple. "We've been needin' more of his kind, instead of all those fatsos from C.C. with the weird hats...
...P.L.A. soldiers are volunteers serving two years. They receive only about $3 to $4 a month in spending money. The division, in accordance with the words of Chairman Mao, produces its own food. We watch P.L.A. men working to process soy beans into soy sauce, bean paste, vinegar and bean curd. The division also grows its own rice and raises 900-odd pigs. Everything fits into its objective of achieving self-reliance and, as Vice Commander Keng puts it, "lightening the burden of the locality." There is a very basic quality about the whole operation. The necessities of life with...