Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wining & Dining. In the Humphreys' case, the reasons for having a larger place are even more compelling. Under President Johnson, the Vice President has been given responsibilities for entertaining that far outweigh those of his predecessors; he must wine and dine visiting VIPs from mayors to maharajahs, yet Hubert and Muriel do well to pack 50 guests into their house for a stand-up cocktail party...
...entered, and she chatted comfortably at the dinner table with him and Henry Cabot, board president of the symphony. Amid the dimly lit candelabra and the red-globed lamps of the Edwardian decor, sweating photographers dashed about popping dozens of flashbulbs at her, occasionally overturning chairs and breaking wine glasses. The guests-from Boston grandes dames to college boys-gaped openly at Jackie, but she seemed unperturbed. Dinner was surprisingly good for such an affair: lobster, veal, braised endive and soufflé glacé. Jackie sat serenely through the speeches, then waltzed to the Blue Danube, The Merry Widow...
...would be a stunning achievement. Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal contends that the American poor are the greatest underdeveloped market in the world. Psychiatrist Leonard Duhl, planning chief of the National Institute of Mental Health, looks forward to the poor learning "the value of books and good music and even wine...
...central-highlands town of Ban Me Thuot last week, South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky became an honorary member of the Rhade tribe. It was a memorable experience. First his combat boots were washed in rice wine from a ritual jar into which the flesh of a sacrificial buffalo had been dipped. Then, as the beast's severed head and tail lay near by, a montagnard sorcerer summoned divine spirits to witness an oath of friendship, and a rebel officer swore allegiance to Saigon Finally, to seal the pledge, two smiling girls presented Ky with...
...four people. Four months ago, a resident of Caieiras, near São Paulo, tried to burn an African beehive stuck in a chimney of a local bar. In a "buzzing mass that darkened the sun," one reported, that the Africans swarmed into the bar stung a traveling wine salesman senseless, left so many stingers in the bald dome of the bartender that he "thought he was growing hair again." In three hours the bees stung 500 people. Then they buzzed off across nearby farms where they left behind flocks of dead chickens, a dozen writhing dogs, and two horses...