Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember that he talked about Kennedy's father, who made his fortune by a not very-in a not very good manner. He said he had speculated in wine. I don't know to what extent that is true." The night after Kennedy died, Marina saw Oswald in the Dallas city jail...
Bloomsbury. One Laborite M.P. reports that he cannot afford to telephone his wife in Scotland. Though the House of Commons dining room serves excellent food and wine-the roast pheasant and Chateau Cheval Blanc 1949 are particularly well regarded right now-quite a few members must stick to fish and chips in the cafeteria. Many cannot afford a part-time secretary and are often seen in the library answering letters in longhand...
...hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks one. "The chicken droppings," replies the sister...
...trial and error, Kratz and lay leaders of the four congregations worked out an acceptable melding of the different church traditions. The teetotaling Lutherans of St. Matthew's were accustomed to using grape juice instead of wine at their Communion services, and were willing to adopt the other churches' usage of ordinary loaf bread instead of unleavened wafers. The Presbyterians, in turn, agreed to take Communion at the altar rail in stead of in the pew. Both the Methodists and the Presbyterians accepted the phrasing of the Apostles' Creed used at St. Matthew's-Christ descended...
Both Spain and Portugal succeed mostly because of their bargain prices; in Portugal a pleasant room with three meals costs $4 a day, and a superb dinner with wine in Lisbon's finest restaurants amounts to $5. Tourism, now the single biggest item in world trade, producing an annual volume of nearly $30 billion, is no longer a matter of class but of mass. Said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: "The price factor tends to be more and more decisive as tourism spreads to the lower income groups...