Word: wined
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...would warn them in advance: "My rule is I want to know everything everybody else knows about this--and more." To work for him amounted to training with Jesuits, dissecting one's faith and then reassembling it. At dinner he'd even challenge an aide about his or her wine selection...
...shadowy figure, Caldwell says, seemed to be focusing his attention on the balcony where King's aides were hovering around the fallen civil rights leader. Caldwell lost track of him in the confusion. His account is in line with the story told by Harold ("Cornbread") Carter, who was drinking wine in a cardboard shelter near the flophouse when the killing occurred. Carter claimed a white man with a rifle walked right past him to the foot of the embankment--precisely where Caldwell spotted a crouching figure--and fired at the motel. Yet the FBI never interviewed Caldwell and wrote...
President Clinton tried out some new material on Jan. 25 at the Alfalfa Club's private dinner--an annual opportunity for Washington power brokers to wine, dine and be deliciously unkind. Some off-the-record excerpts...
Like fellow cultural elitists through out the University, we at Dartboard enjoy the sort of wine and cheese events that usually accompany the presentation of new exhibits. Fortunately, "Building the Collective" was substantive as well. (Cynical as we are here, we wouldn't dare suggest that some fine fellows and ladies in attendance often shirk the art in toto for the food...
...revolutionary-themed room was perhaps the most intellectually stimulating. On one poster, the Whites who battled the communist Reds in the Civil War were portrayed as wine-swilling fat cats not dissimilar in manner to the depictions of their red-white-and-blue-hatted American counterparts on the congruent poster. Another work in the room focuses on conspiritorial links within the League of Nations between the capitalist nations to destroy the Soviet "threat." Yet a more extreme print reworks a Russian fairy tale about evil people (fat capitalists) attempting to uproot a turnip (a national symbol), whereupon the turnip rises...