Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surroundings. "I was born, a barbarian," she has often said-to the infinite delight of her Greek subjects, "and I came to Greece to get civilized." The heady atmosphere of a nation where politics is a national sport was as much to Frederika's taste as the national wine Retsina, which smacks of turpentine to most foreigners. The new princess lost no time in establishing the dynasty which would make her stay in this delightful place secure. Her first child, a daughter, was born just ten months after the marriage. A second, the present Crown Prince Constantine, was born...
...Communist, hopping back & forth between Stalin's Moscow and the underground in Mussolini's Italy. By his 303 he had seen enough of both totalitarianisms; he settled down in free Switzerland, wrote his famed novels of the Italian peasantry, Fontamara and Bread and Wine. After World War II, he went home to Italy, won a following in Italian politics as an anti-Communist Socialist. A Handful of Blackberries is his first novel to appear in the U.S. in more than a decade. Novelist Silone, 53, is still against persecutors...
Frenchmen, of course, prefer the better wines, but they are far too expensive. So the French consume less table wine than they used to, and the government supports prices by buying up low-grade wines to convert into industrial alcohol. Nevertheless, the problem of surpluses gets worse. Wine is the backbone of the French economy. As the country's biggest business, employing 5,000,000, it brings in more government revenue than any other industry: 70 billion francs a year ($200 million...
...Winegrowers. Two months ago. faced with a huge deficit, the government announced that it would cut down on its price-support purchases for alcohol. As a result, 50,000 Midi winegrowers struck and stopped shipping wine. The government put down the strike and promised reforms...
Last week Premier Joseph Laniel issued a set of decrees designed to put the industry back on its feet. To keep only the best grades of wine on the market, growers will be compelled to turn over 12% of their harvest to the government, at a low price, for distillation into industrial alcohol. If there is still overproduction by 1958, the government will force the winemakers to uproot a percentage of their vines each year until output matches sales. As one expert summed it up: "The French wine industry is now at the crossroads, and the question is quality...