Word: vining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vine Leaves & Sausage. If the arrangement is ratified by stockholders of both firms-as expected-Waldorf (which has no connection with the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel) will give Restaurant Associates $5,200,000 in Waldorf stock, and thus about two-thirds' control of the combined firm. With sales stuck around $19 million a year for a decade, Waldorf has lost $510,000 over the past three years; Restaurant Associates' sales have climbed 40% to $28 million in that time, produced a $592,000 profit last year. Why, then, should Restaurant Associates want Waldorf...
...Waldorf chain, which is trying to upgrade its image, menus and income, should be able to pick up some ideas from its new partner. Restaurant Associates specializes in distinctive touches, from a sybaritic menu at the Forum (truffle-stuffed quail wrapped in Macedonian vine leaves) to the farm market displays of fresh vegetables, fruits and gourds that decorate the Top of the Fair restaurant at the World's Fair (which the firm took over this year). To wring a profit from its three restaurants in Manhattan's gargantuan new Pan American Building, President and Chief Executive Joseph...
...Granted that Napoleon Solo may be a good imitation of James Bond, but don't ever equate Vaughn with Connery. They are as different as-well, to use a Bond-style analogy, 1951 and 1957 vintage Burgundies. They might have come from the same vine, but gentlemen, one is so much more mellow, mature and smoo-ooth...
...paparazzi keep leaping out of the foliage to take her picture. Huston has decided that there will be no fig leaves after the Fall. He said he tried aprons of fig leaves but "they looked too much like G strings." Instead, Adam and Eve will clutch whole branches of vine leaves to hide their nakedness...
...Constantine, the archbishop, his white beard bobbing, said: "Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches around thy table." The couple then drank three times from an enameled cup of wine, circled the altar in the traditional Dance of Isaiah as rose petals cascaded from the ceiling. As they marched down the aisle, a 101-gun salute began reverberating across the blue hills of Hellas, and all the bells of Athens began to peal...