Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politician. "Personal diplomacy is a relatively new thing," he reflects. "It only really started with the Second World War. Before that it was almost unheard of and when it did occur, usually catastrophic. It's still pretty dangerous. It's easy to lean back after dinner, sip some wine and say all right I'll give you this and you give me that' but later on you often regret...
...since 1578, when Sir Francis Drake sacked Cadiz and sailed away with 3,000 casks of the rich, golden drink, have Spanish vintners been so outraged by British treatment of their proudest export - sherry. In London's Royal Courts of Justice, Spanish and British wine merchants are arguing a question that, depending on who loses, could sour a big business. The question...
...enough lawyers, linguists and wine merchants are on hand to keep the case going well into March, bring court costs alone to around $280,000. Before long, the judges may well be ready to settle the when-is-sherry-sherry question on the expert and well-aged testimony of Falstaff, who defined "a good Sherris-sack" as a brew that "ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive...
...five-block site will rise an 800-room convention hotel shaped on one side like a terraced pyramid, equipped on another with a 16 story enclosed garden court. There will be three theaters (two of them for live drama), art galleries, shops, restaurants and even a wine museum. A fountain-dotted pedestrian mall two stories above traffic-clogged streets will link the buildings with one another and with the adjoining $150 million Golden Gateway renewal project of elegant apartments, town houses and offices. The developers budgeted...
...Vietnam. He has a peculiarly personal and philosophic view of General Education (he was chairman of the Gen Ed Committee from 1960 to 1965) as the wholesale marketing of truth and insight. But as one student protests, "Take a Finley-Finleyism like 'Tragedy is the brandy to the wine of epic.' Fine. It's beautiful. But what does it mean? Does one take the epic with dinner and tragedy with dessert...