Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Masters' Open Houses and Faculty Dinners we believe students should be left on their honor. Few students really get wasted on sherry or one bottle of wine split between six people at a dinner table. And alcohol consumption at these functions is usually at its most sedate, formal and sociable--not its raucous party mode...
...family grew wine grapes in the Pyrenees. Simon was educated in Paris and then worked at becoming a painter. He served in the Spanish Civil War and later in the French cavalry. Captured by the Germans in 1940, he escaped and joined the French Resistance...
Moses said in an interview that he also "told proctors and non-resident advisers not to serve alcohol to freshmen even in their own home." Moses said wine had been served to 'shmen at teas and faculty dinners--but now "no occasion sponsored by the Freshmen Dean's Office will serve alcohol...
...effort, the results of Gorbachev's sobering initiative have so far been mixed. Sales of hard liquor, mainly vodka, have fallen by 15%, and wine and champagne sales are off by 25%. Because of the restrictions on the sale of liquor, problem drinkers increasingly are resorting to gulping eau de cologne, and many shops have stopped selling cologne. Many Soviets resort to buying liquor on the thriving black market. Others make their own moonshine alcohol in illegal stills, although these have recently become the targets of police raids...
...films had not been preserved, Welles' trim exuberance would not have so cuttingly mocked the Falstaffian corpulence of his maturity. One generation knows him as the brilliant light that Hollywood failed and as the guy Rita Hayworth married before Aly Khan. Another generation thinks of him as a wine salesman, ballast at a Dean Martin Roast table and butt of Johnny Carson's "fat" jokes, all of which he bore with wounded dignity. Welles' premature burial in the flesh of his profligacy and self-destruction needs to be mourned. But it is helpful to recall that his life...