Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a Lion. She pauses and sips a glass of white wine. She chain-smokes. She is a handsome woman with big brown eyes, hair closely cropped and a straw hat on top of a patterned scarf. There are two long earrings in each ear, and one nostril is pierced. Five years ago, to cast off her middle-class upbringing, she outfitted herself with Zulu names. Ntozake literally means "She who comes with her own thing," and Shange means "One who walks like a lion." She was born Paulette Williams, and "named after my father because he wanted...
Desperate for a defense against insects, man began to develop chemical controls. During the late Middle Ages, people attempted to control tree-destroying insects by exposing the roots of afflicted trees, pouring in old wine lees and then closing the hole. Infusions of tobacco were used in France as early as 1690 to fight lace bugs on pear trees. Pyrethrum, a compound obtained from the chrysanthemum family, was used as far back as 1800 to kill fleas. Rotenone, which can be extracted from various plants, was introduced in 1848 to attack leaf-eating caterpillars. Synthetic insecticides were introduced during...
...down the rock were my five friends, hand-in-hand, sit-sliding...sploosh. They rode the tidal wave they made in the pearl-pool at the bottom, clambered out as if an ejector seat were pushing them, and toiled back up the path to where I was. Greetings, food, wine, smoke, sun, pine needles, my turn...
...native Virginian, Jefferson, 33, shares with other wealthy tobacco planters a love of good food, good wine and fast horses. Unlike most of his neighbors in the Piedmont or Tidewater, however, Jefferson has been a lifelong student of natural philosophy and the arts, a man who reads easily in Greek, Latin, French and Italian, and who, when he can, still practices three hours a day on the violin...
...even in trying to breed buffaloes as beasts of burden. Enjoying his rewards, Washington ordered only the best of carriages from London "in the newest taste, with steel springs, green unless any other color is more in vogue." His favorite sport: fox hunting. His favorite delicacies: oysters, watermelons, Madeira wine...