Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before settling its main dispute, the Community was able to adopt two measures symbolic of European unity. Starting in 1978, all citizens of EEC nations will carry one passport, a dark lie de vin -dregs of wine-red. There will also be direct elections that year to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, which is now composed of delegates appointed by each government. Though agreeing reluctantly to the timing of the new passport, the British, together with the Danes, warned that they might not be ready for direct elections by 1978. On that relatively small point, the others were not about...
...suffering a financial hangover: liquor sales have risen 4% or less a year for the past five years, costs have soared for everything from barrels to bottle tops, and the companies have been afraid to raise whisky prices because a boost might drive customers to drink more beer and wine. Liquor prices rose only 3.6% last year. By reducing the proof, says Gerald Mooney, trade, press-and executive-relations manager of Hiram Walker, "we get what amounts to a price increase without passing that along to the consumer." Lowering the proof reduces both manufacturing costs and federal taxes...
...consists of naked women standing on a hilltop, legs spread apart, with a most unusual, watery, lurid pinkish substance gusing down their legs. The humorous highlights are a mock communion scene in which codeine tablets are taken in place of wafers and menstrual blood is drunk in lieu of wine, and when some woman with a sanitary napkin hooked up over her clothing, leaping about, stomps up and down on a box of Kotex. It's all rather artsy, but in the end there's too much fake blood and not enough...
Restore the regime of Old King Cole! The days of wine and molossol...
...sprawling ranch house. He enjoys just sitting around watching his three children, Charles, 7, Edward, 6, and Joquel, 2. "I've missed a lot of their growing up," he says. Other times, Greene is happy weeding the cucumbers and squash in his garden, sipping a glass of white wine while he listens to the Temptations, or helping his wife Agnes clean house. A compulsive tidier, Joe says, "It gives me peace of mind to know things are in their place...