Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, instead of wine...
...scarlet coach drawn by six white horses. Iraqi chieftains from far-flung oases came to Baghdad to pump the hand of the handsome visitor from Jordan. Feisal ordered a five-hour military show for his pistol-toting cousin. At European-style banquets, while diplomats and ministers drank wine, the cousins solemnly sipped Coca-Cola, decorated each other with the highest orders of their lands...
Parties are a Kindelberger specialty; last week he cooked up a dinner for 60 (chicken in wine, rice, salad, and bread "with just a touch of garlic"). But Dutch always tries to get to bed early; loves to lie there reading magazines and listening to his bedside radio, which has a special attachment to plug into his good...
Private Industry. In Moscow, Soviet officials revealed that a wine-store manager in the Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic had been convicted of cheating the state of 120,000 rubles by selling bootleg vodka...
...your salary by and by." After discovering "Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is upon us and there doesn't seem to have been a single turkey dinner served up in the news columns 'with all the fixin's,'" Bernstein joyfully wrote: "Innkeeper, wine all around!" He also pounces on sloppy checking of names. When a story from Germany mentioned "Shepherd Stone," Bernstein noted tartly: "He used to work here [as assistant Sunday editor] and his name is Shepard...