Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oakly has come a long way since John Calhoun wrote of his life there: "My wine has started, finally." The Lovers' Lane that bordered the estate in Calhoun's time is still there, and the gardens are as lovely as ever, but Dumbarton Oaks, itself, has changed greatly. Once the residence of a Yale man, it is now the scene of Harvard's expansion into a field beset by growing pains but very much alive...
...much persuasiveness that committeemen. already impressed with Ike's speech of the night before, gushed a remarkable torrent of praise. Even Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright. who had often delighted in baiting Dulles, called the revised aid program "wise and imaginative." As Dulles flushed redder than his wine-colored tie, Vermont's Republican George Aiken topped it all off. "I want to compliment you." he said, "on the compliments you have received...
Across the pampas, tractors towed combines out of the fields. Twenty million liters of wine mellowed in gigantic oak casks in western Mendoza. Off toward Cape Horn, coats thickened on 19 million sheep. In the subtropical north, the machetes of the cane cutters flashed...
...acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...
Cars & Planes. The rental rush started with car leasing. Almost overnight, 2,000 companies grew up to rent cars and trucks, and fees now total $350 million a year. Soon these firms were leasing a wide range of light and heavy gear. Rollins Leasing Corp., for example, now has wine presses, printing presses and hundreds of other items on lease in 47 states and Canada. In the past year alone Rollins has fattened earnings...