Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything in the restaurant will change with the solstices and equinoxes: dishes, flowers, waiters' uniforms, trees (which will be uprooted and replaced four times a year). Serving the 450 customers seated at one time will be 25 chefs and bakers and a battalion of 125 cummerbunded captains, waiters, wine stewards, barmen and busboys...
...simple five francs in the new currency. To prevent this, the government for a time is requiring all price tags to bear both old and new prices. Workers accustomed to receive 40,000 francs a month may grumble at only 400 -until they discover a bottle of red wine now costs only a franc and the resurrected sou will buy a box of matches...
Orange Juice & Wine. Kozlov was still talking animatedly when they settled down in a glass-enclosed lounge for a breather. The Russians offered some champagne, but Ike courteously turned it down. He took an orange juice, and so did Kozlov. But the Russians still persisted with the champagne, and Ike politely accepted "just a little,'' was handed a full glass...
...inhabited Henry IV. There he had much nobility, and always emerged victorious. Here he is noble in name only; his I.Q. is perceptibly lower, and he always comes out vanquished. But he's still a lovable old wretch, even though "given to fornications, and to taverns and sack and wine and metheglins, and to drinkings and swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles...
...race but a circus." Three hundred thousand spectators flock to Le Mans, spend more than $1,000,000 on other amusements as the sports cars roar over public roads through the 24-hour grind. They roam through 500-odd fair stands, quaff more than 100,000 liters of wine, beer and soft drinks, watch professional wrestling matches just 50 yards from the track, ogle strippers and snake dancers, cram all-night dance halls and, when they run down, catch a few winks in 20,000 sleeping tents booked to capacity at $5 a tent...