Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conscious Paul ordered strict limits. This time aides to Cardinals are barred but non-electors will nevertheless number to approximately 300 confessors, barbers, medical aides, maintenance men and nuns to prepare relatively simple meals. Trucks were already rumbling into the Vatican last week with sizable quantities of pasta and wine...
...Wine Omar Khayyam may have to be rewritten. For the Jug of Wine that went with the Loaf of Bread-and Thou, substitute Bag (for the Jug, that is). Instead of bottling their vintages in conventional glass, nearly two dozen California wine makers, including Almaden and Geyser Peak, are putting up bulk wines in four-ply plastic film bags equipped with patented on-off spout valves. Sometimes cunningly encased in cardboard kegs, the bags are cheaper than bottles, as well as easier to ship and store. The pioneering Scholle Corp. of Northlake, Ill., which claims that its bags keep wine...
Inside the dark dining room, a single straw mat and a slender wine glass had been put out on the table for Kennedy, and now he set another place for his guest. A call came from his son Patrick, 11. Kennedy bellowed into the phone after he listened to the boy tell about catching a manta ray that day. He lighted some candles, opened a bottle of white wine, and began tasting his cooking. "Yes, I would like to be President," he said frankly. "Yes, I feel I can do the job. But this isn't the time...
...from the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building, a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players blew tunes ranging from the Beatles to Mendelssohn. One night more than 150,000 New Yorkers and visitors came to Central Park's Sheep Meadow. They laid out blankets and picnic suppers, bottles of wine and sleeping babies, and settled down to listen to the New York Philharmonic play a program culminating in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. At the finale, brilliant salvos of fireworks...
...weeks ago, as he left the Vatican for his annual summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo in the nearby Alban Hills, he told an aide: "We do not know if we will return and how we will return." On the first day of August, the theme recurred. Driven to the wine-making hamlet of Frattocchio to visit the grave of an old friend, he said to a knot of onlookers: "We hope to meet him after death, which for us cannot be far away." Five days later, on the Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, the Pope was dead...