Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians wanted a straight barter deal. The company agreed to furnish them with the essentials for making Pepsi, including bottling equipment from West Germany, over a five-year period (the Russians make their own bottles and handle all distribution). In return, Pepsi got the rights to sell Russian wine and vodka in the U.S. The arrangement boils down to this: the more Soviet booze Pepsi can market in the U.S., the more Pepsi concentrate (and new equipment) the Soviets...
...celebrated Southern Baptist, Billy Graham, leaped to the new President's defense in a Miami Herald interview. As Graham reads his well-worn Bible, there is no doubt that "Jesus drank wine." After all, he miraculously turned six huge jars of water into wine at the wedding at Cana (John 2: 1-11). "That wasn't grape juice, as some of them try to claim," added Graham...
...replied Fundamentalist Presbyterian Carl Mclntire. In his Christian Beacon, he offered an ingenious exegesis of the Cana account: "Jesus Christ never drank any fermented wine, neither did he ever make fermented wine. What Jesus did at the marriage of Cana was to make out of water the finest nonintoxicating wine that perhaps was ever made. The various combinations of the fruits of the vine can produce some delicious non-fermented drinks...
Facing a flurry of complaints, Graham then issued a 2,000-word statement further explaining his position on alcohol. The wine of biblical times was "very much weaker than modern drink," he said. "We have a free conscience before the Lord, [but] it is better for Christians to be teetotalers, except for medicinal purposes...
...Mailer) to "dress magnificantly -and medievally" and join him at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a feast. The menu included gyngere (gingered carp) and blancmange (spiced chicken in almond cream), all to be eaten only with fingers; potables were mead and hippocras (spiced wine). As the banquet's lord of the manor, the host was outfitted in ermine-trimmed cape and ducal crown. The price tag for the gothic gaieties...