Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before breaking up in futility. Menzies was reportedly refusing to talk about any Nasser counterproposals. Afterwards Nasser entertained the committee at a banquet in the lush tropical gardens of one of the ex-royal family's palaces. To the dismay of burly Bob Menzies, Australia's leading wine connoisseur, Moslem Nasser served only soft drinks with the dinner. (Soon he was not to care; like so many visitors to Egypt, Menzies came down with a case of "gyppy tummy...
...rumors linking Javits with Communist-front organizations ten years ago. A prime source of the rumors: Jay Sourwine, former counsel of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee when it was headed by Pat McCarran and now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator in Nevada. Charged Democrat Sour-wine: "The Justice Department has evidence showing Javits to have been the protege of important Communists, who helped push him up the political ladder." The least of Sourwine's implications: if Republican Javits were nominated he could be thoroughly smeared...
Habits: Prodigious cigar smoker (Churchill sends him his Havana specials by the hundreds) and wine connoisseur. Follows tennis and cricket "not as a fan but as a fanatic," and has been known to adjourn state conferences in London to attend Davis Cup and cricket Test matches...
...short time, the little prince and his brother were seen by passers-by "shooting at butts ... on the Tower greens." Then they disappeared. Atween Two Feather Beds. "Some said," writes a contemporary chronicler, "they were murdered atween two feather beds, some said they were drowned in malvesey (wine) and some said that they were sticked with a venomous potion." Two hundred years later, the skeletons of two children were discovered by workmen at the base of the White Tower and laid reverently in Westminster Abbey. Kendall considers it "very probable" that the remains were those of the princes. Who killed...
Devout Christians had been sipping sacramental wine for centuries when Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch stepped in as Communion steward of the Vineland (N.J.) Methodist Church in 1869. A stern prohibitionist, Dentist Welch determined forthwith to banish Bacchus from the altar. After reading up on Pasteur and experimenting with figs, raisins and blackberries, Dr. Welch gladdened the hearts of fellow communicants on Sunday by serving sterilized, unfermented grape juice. It tasted almost like wine...