Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academy. Deng got a job fitting parts together at a nearby tractor factory. In his spare time he tended his vegetable garden, raised chickens and read books on Marx, Lenin and Chinese history. He became popular with his neighbors, who would drop by to grind flour and make rice wine with him. Deng returned to Peking in 1973 after the death of his rival, Lin Biao, and to full power in 1977. Evidently he retains warm feelings for Jiangxi. His days there, says Mao Mao, helped him "comprehend the actual social conditions of the people...
...atmosphere was more Big D than Big Blue. Everyone was given a cowboy hat and bandanna, beer and wine were freely consumed, and country music played. Unusual goings on for a company famous for dark blue suits and white shirts and where liquor is not permitted at official functions. In the words of one independent IBM dealer, the three-day extravaganza was "on the tasteful side of gaudy...
...country smaller than Oregon and with slightly fewer people (23 million) than California, Rumania was a major presence at the Olympics. The land of plentiful wine and comely gymnasts accounted for more medals than any country except the U.S. and West Germany. That would be reason enough to cause dancing in the streets of Bucharest. Yet Rumania's strong showing was even more welcome because it justified a decision to show up at all, disregarding the Soviet-sponsored boycott. If that were not sufficiently gratifying, the roaring ovation that greeted the team's entry into the Coliseum...
...think our prices are high. They may be so for the average Brazilian, but the average Brazilian does not come here." Nonetheless, travelers can find some buys in South American countries. At La Costa Verde restaurant near Lima, a leisurely seafood lunch with drinks and wine still costs $14 a diner, the same as in 1980. Popular Brazilian agate ashtrays that went for $8.60 four years ago now cost less than $6, and the $1.50 that it takes to buy a bottle of good Argentine vodka is half of last year's price...
...becoming Pope six years ago, though he skied regularly when he lived in Poland. A sweater-clad Pertini followed in a snowmobile, puffing on his pipe and crying, "Santitá [Holiness], you whirl about like a swallow." Stopping at a mountain lodge for a lunch of pasta, beef and wine, John Paul toasted "a true friendship and an authentic human sentiment." Pertini then headed back to Rome, but the Pope stayed on the slopes for another day of enthusiastic downhilling. Reported Alpine Guide Franco Zani: "He skied at a level you could call intermediate-calm, slowly, turning well." Most important...