Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scheel aboard a Rhine River cruise boat, Ford and his wife Betty danced exuberantly to a German band's rendition of The Field Artillery March and Dixie, though the exertion caused an exhausted Betty Ford to remain in bed the next day. He sipped a bit of local wine on a visit to the Rhine River town of Linz (the presidential verdict: "Delicious") and dropped in on a picnic attended by 3,500 American soldiers and their families in the town of Kirschgoens. Then, during a two-day journey to Poland, the President was greeted by a cheerful though...
...discussion, the Finns decided to ask each delegation to send its four most senior members to the dinner; the ranking member of each delegation will be seated closest to the host and to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at a gigantic C-shaped banquet table. The dinner menu and wine list remained a state secret, at least partly because Kekkonen, under local pressure to serve a Finnish sparkling wine,* was privately determined to offer French champagne...
...Germans.* But almost everywhere Yankee tourists have been learning home truths abroad: they have been buying less, staying at cheaper hotels, taking subways and buses. Many have discovered the less traveled provinces of France, such as Burgundy and Périgord, where $5 still buys a good dinner with wine. Others have stretched shrunken dollars by taking leisurely barge trips through the English countryside or hopscotching across the Continent on a $200 Eurail pass good for 30 days in 13 Western European countries...
...offers to kill the Sultan Mahomet II, the main antagonist of Venice during that period. In 1514, John of Ragusa offered to poison anybody selected by the government of Venice for an annual salary of fifteen hundred ducats . . . In the same period the cardinals brought their own butlers and wine to a papal coronation dinner for fear they might otherwise be poisoned; this custom is reported to have been general in Rome, without the host's taking offense...
...Carpenter former press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson and a founding member of the NWPC beamed down at the caucus wine-drinkers from the inter steps of Boston City Hall. "Welcome to the Boston lea Party. Women know what it is like to have taxation without representation...