Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...projected $1.75 billion deficit in the 1966 budget, the government slashed its defense outlay, aid to Berlin, civil service pensions and civil-defense spending. While it refrained from boosting corporate or consumer taxes for fear of inviting a recession, it symbolically hiked the tax on two national luxuries: sparkling wine, of which the Germans now consume more than the French, and schnapps. Most important, Erhard announced plans to renege on some of his party's pre-election promises by paring or postponing bills that were to give bigger handouts to his country's already well-subsidized refugees, mothers...
...Palm Wine...
September 7--In the middle of the afternoon two villagers hailed me as they were heading off into the forest, and invited me to come along. We We walked to a small clearing where two palm trees had been felled, and they collected the palm wine from gourds that had been under the cut. We sat in the shade and drank the palm wine. One of the men explained to me, half joking, the importance of this drink to village life. It's cheap--25 francs for a groundful. In the morning, the men eat a little manioc, and empty...
...whom headwaiters snap to attention. When he walks into a Manhattan restaurant, hardly anyone notices. But he notices everything. Is the decor adequate? Does the headwaiter seem anxious to get on to someone else? Is there any single offering out of the ordinary on the menu? Is the wine overpriced? Is the busboy attentive to such details as discarded swizzle sticks and filled ashtrays? Are the service plates set just right? Then, having eaten and paid for his meal, Craig Claiborne, food and restaurant editor of the New York Times, goes on his way, full of sharp impressions...
...quality for its restaurants, has gone on to become one of Britain's biggest food producers. It dominates the British bakery field with its 14 bakeries, is winning an increasingly large part of the ice cream market. The firm also markets soft drinks, stores a million bottles of wine in a cellar beneath Southwark, runs five hotels and a 1,000-car parking garage under Hyde Park...