Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well." History already has come to make a wry face on tasting the wine from Nürnberg's chalice. That the U.S. fought a war with Communist allies is completely justifiable, but that U.S. representatives then sat with Communist judges to try others on charges of "crimes against humanity" (of which the U.S. knew the Communists to be as guilty...
...Snack of Glass. When "Queen" Caroline met Lord Byron, even the robustest Whig was rocked by the resulting drama. Caroline dressed up as Poet Byron's page boy in a silver-laced jacket and scarlet pantaloons, bit large pieces out of her wine glass when she saw him talking to another woman. But Melbourne stood staunchly by his Fairy Queen, watching her glittering hysteria degenerate into madness. She died in 1828, leaving him the father of a half-witted...
...place is Conant himself, for he is among other things a Harvardman, and the great versatility that goes with that label will likely stand him in good stead no matter where his political fortunes lead him.WIDE WORLD PHOTOCONANT and West German Chancellor KONRAD ADENAUER (left) drink a toast in wine to the signing of an agreement which restores the postwar treaty of friendship, commerce and consulate rights between Germany and American on June 3, 1953. The treaty, first signed in 1923, was suspended at the outbreak...
With his wife and four children, he lives an active family and social life in a large Chicago house (two servants), and summers on his Brattleboro, Vt. dairy farm. He plays vigorous, competent, year-round tennis, is interested in his clothes and his food, keeps a good wine cellar, drinks orange juice mixed with soda, likes movies (but not "message" movies, because the movies' proper message is the "enrichment of fantasy...
Happy Hospitality. But the delegation, in the happy swirl of rice wine, tinkling gongs, friendly smiles and endless toasts, seemed not to notice. Premier Chou En-lai himself welcomed them at the Peking Pavilion of Purple Light, launching a round of banqueting, toast-drinking and speechmaking that lasted for 19 days. In Peking's sweltering heat, the Laborites downed innumerable toasts, consumed huge quantities of shark fins, lotus root and roasted duck skin, amid a continuous flutter of fans. At banquets, Chou linked arms with