Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been too far behind his career batting average of 243. He was competent in a dozen languages, including Latin and Sanskrit. He held a law degree and even practiced for a few off-seasons on Wall Street. He was charming, good-looking, witty and a connoisseur of wine, women and string quartets. He kept a tuxedo in his locker. He was also a bit mysterious...
...months ago, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter left the family's split-level in Ketchurn, Idaho. One night when she was feeling good and funny and true, she revealed that she had been conceived after her parents had put away a bottle of Chateau Margaux, the kind of wine that has rested in cool cellars and must be drunk with reverence. "Tons of things are happening to me now," says Margaux. She has a boy friend, Hamburger King Errol Wetson, 33, who is "the best." She adds: "I guess it's inevitable that I will get into movies...
...often experienced books simultaneously. In addition to Forster, there was Ignazio Silone's Bread and Wine, the story of an Italian Communist resistance fighter who returns to fascist Italy disguised as a priest. Nick's father was a well-known Pittsburgh doctor; mine a Chicago criminal lawyer. The personal poignance of Pietro Spina, the rich young man who gives his life to the poor, and foregoes comfort because of his faith--not in God, but in his people--was so close to our hopes (I hope not illusions) about ourselves...
...United Farm Workers got what they wanted this week in the Cambridge-area battle over Gallo wine sales: a court-approved settlement that allows them to continue picketing local stores that sell Gallo wines...
...next presidential election and three years before the next scheduled vote for the National Assembly. During one barnstorming day last week, Jobert shook hands at the town market at Mirepoix, visited a farm and a textile plant, lunched with about 50 supporters in Foix, drank a glass of wine at the local weekly newspaper in Limoux, visited a wine cave, autographed 100 copies of his memoirs at a bookstore in Carcassonne, dined with another group of supporters and then ended the day with a rally of some 200 people in a Carcassonne shopping center...