Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roll. The familiar beat is there, but the lyrics provide a startling illustration of just how differently they order these things in France. Sample: "The Father Superior with haggard eye and gnashing teeth left the refectory screaming: 'I'll kill the bum who drank all my Communion wine.' He had the tocsin tolled, but nobody found the drunk...
...last ten years the government has promised the Sorbonne that it could some day have the huge (2.700,000 sq. ft.) Halle aux Vins for a new science center. But for ten years nothing at all has happened. "The wine merchants," says an official of the University Teachers' Federation, "are fighting a delaying action against us, and they seem very successful. What France needs is scientists, not alcoholics...
...Home National Bank (TiME, Dec. 24, 1956), Rose, 51, heard a New York federal judge sentence him to five years in jail for misapplication of bank funds. President Joseph Di Candia of the nearby Anjopa Paper Co., who invested part of $958,000 in loans from Rose in wine, women and song, was sentenced to three years for his part in the deal. Mrs. Celia Hoffman and Mrs. Anna Schandler, two sisters who put every cent of $333,000 from Rose into their struggling hotel in Fallsburg, N.Y., got suspended sentences of two years. To Rose's stockholders...
Like a good wine, wrestlers improve with age. Last year, the varsity wrestling team won six out of ten matches, good enough for fourth in the unformalized Ivy League...
...Nixon prefers Scotch, does not usually serve wine in his own home, but sips it dutifully when offered at ceremonial functions...