Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his opponents, serving condescending and infuriating notice on the French public that the choice was simply himself "or confusion." He would not even consider stooping to public appearances or speeches. But while he kept a haughty silence, his opposition campaigned all over France. It was a heady new wine for a richly political people parched for politics for the past seven years under monolithic Gaullism...
...with a frenzy, heavily favor French champagne or Italian spumante, Scotch and cognac. Martini & Rossi, Cinzano and Carpano all send out packages or cases of their best vermouth. ENI, the government-owned petroleum combine, gives champagne in decorative holders; IRI, the industrial combine, sends cases of high-quality Maccarese wine. No one cleans up in Italy like the Italian police. Companies have taken up the custom, long observed by the populace, of giving them presents at Epiphany. One result is that on Jan. 6 it is often difficult to spot a traffic cop behind his mountain of gifts...
...Mandrake Wine. According to plan, Schonfield suggests, Jesus' body was turned over to Joseph of Arimathea. Jesus' legs were not broken with mallets as were those of the robbers crucified with him; vinegar supplied to him by an unnamed onlooker, which in the Gospels preceded his "giving up the ghost," was probably a drug. University of California Anthropologist Michael J. Harner, corroborating Schonfield, said last week that wine made from the mandrake plant was used in Palestine to induce a deathlike state in persons who were being crucified...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Virtue Affair." Illya and Napoleon deal with a fanatic in France who is trying to perfect an insecticide bomb that would ruin wine. Color...
...WEAVERS: REUNION AT CARNEGIE HALL, PART 2 (Vanguard). If anyone has forgotten that the Weavers were once the pharaohs of folk, here is fresh proof. Recorded at a concert in 1963, this new release includes Frozen Logger, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Old Smoky and Rock Island Line, plus a ditty called I'm Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter-bomb shelter, that...