Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the election last June, the 35-year-old priest felt more like a benighted missionary than ever. Though there was virtually no unemployment and the wine industry was flourishing, Gaggio di Piano gave the Christian Democrats only 161 votes against 1,020 for the Communist Party. Don Giuseppe decided that what he needed was a working-class appeal. He began buttonholing members of his infidel flock and telling them: "The essence of Christianity is work-material as well as spiritual. Why, Christ himself was a worker for 30 of his 33 years." Somewhat to his surprise...
...answers: 1) May 14, 1948; 2) Ben-Zvi; 3) nine: 4) Kiddush is a consecration of the Sabbath over wine, and Kaddish is a prayer in memory of the dead; 5) 88. Commonest error: David Ben-Gurion for Isaac...
...France last week, from the choice vineyards of Burgundy to the rich plains of Bordeaux, French wine experts studied the grapes and searched the sky. If the dry weather held, it would be another tres grande année (very great year) for wine. The Ministry of Agriculture reported that the yield might run as high as 1.5 billion gals, in France alone, plus another 450 million gals, from Algeria. But as they began harvesting the grapes, few growers were happy. The trouble: France already has more wine than it can drink or export...
Said Paris' Franc-Tiretir: "No one is really an enemy of wine-in France-but it is hard to ask Frenchmen to drink more than their bellyful for the sole purpose of draining off the harvest surplus." Frenchmen, already the world's biggest consumers of alcoholic beverages (seven gals, per person per year, on a pure alcohol basis, v. one gal. per American), drank about 1.2 billion gals, of wine last year, 75% of what they put away in prewar years. Yet wine production was about the same as before the war (1.9 billion gals.), almost a third...
...Frenchmen. The crux of France's wine problem is overproduction of poor, low-priced grades. Almost half of France's home-wine crop comes from le Midi méditerranéen, roughly the region between Marseille and the Pyrenees. It is cheap, tart wine, and much of it is mixed with Algerian wine and sold as vin rouge, which must be consumed quickly, or it will turn sour...