Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were cold, hungry, shabby, miserable. Youngsters complained about the bleak future, housewives about bare cupboards, workers about the high cost of living, shopkeepers about inflation, farmers about the lack of goods, industrialists about a shortage of materials, and everybody about selfish bureaucrats, heavy taxes and the scarcity of good wine...
...Wine, New Bottles...
After London's meeting of the UNO Preparatory Commission decided to place UNO's capital in the U.S., the fight narrowed down to San Francisco v. the East. Said Antonio Parra Velasco of Ecuador: "San Francisco is a city of wine, and where there is wine there is civilization, culture and the spirit of enthusiasm which we need." The British preferred to argue this point on its merits. Professor C. K. Webster, the United Kingdom's alternate delegate, said he had found the wines of the Hudson Valley equal to those of California...
...vote, the admirers of California wine lost, 25 to 5. The new international center would be in the U.S., somewhere east of the Mississippi...
After the dinner (including Manitoba buffalo steak, supreme of prairie chicken, rõti, Okanagan fruit compote, Inglenook-Traminer white wine), Mike Pearson toasted the President of the U.S.; Actor George Murphy responded with a toast to the King. Shortly after midnight, everyone went home...