Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, the thought of a U.S. delegation headed by the Vice President aroused active hostility. ("He is not one of us," complained a French official. "He doesn't know France, doesn't speak French, probably doesn't even drink wine."*) Even in NATO capitals where there is growing acceptance of Nixon's ability, it was an article of faith that a summit conference without Ike would lose much of its impact. Said a German Foreign Office spokesman: "You cannot delegate prestige...
...work on the Assembly with demands for special powers to enforce price controls by slapping heavy fines on price gougers, and to close the shops of merchants who refuse to comply. He also proposed an extra 100 billion francs in new taxes on such semi-luxury items as wine and autos...
...wine country in southern France is a special case. The Italians would be allowed to develop the vineyards, but only on the condition that they export the wine to Algeria. The Algerians, whom nobody wants to annex, would have wine and freedom. They could use both...
...year Wladyslaw Gomulka, the bald boss of Polish Communism, has wobbled down the middle of the road, driving slowly away from Moscow but unwilling and unable to turn toward the West, titillating the Polish people with the heady wine of limited freedom without withdrawing the hangover of Communist controls. At times Gomulka must have wondered if the so-called "Polish road to Socialism," for which he had defied Nikita Khrushchev himself, was a- road at all. His policies of half-independence and half-freedom left everybody only half-satisfied and failed miserably to solve the nation's economic crisis...
...Beat Generation is not without cultural ancestors. In the beginning there was Edna St. Vincent Millay, burning her candle at both ends. And then there was Hemingway and the Lost Generation squirting wine sacks at each other. But beside Kerouac's band, they are all pickers. They were never "beatifically beat," as are On the Road's "... mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding...