Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best and simplest reasons for France's sniffy reception of Coca-Cola are: 1) wine in France is cheaper . . . and is a long-ingrained national habit; 2) no Frenchman likes to be strong-armed into things, not even by the U.S. State Department...
...Wine and cognac ads appear infrequently, vodka ads almost never, but the Liquor Trust recently ran an ad saying: "Bring your empty, cognac and wine bottles to the Moscow Liquor Factory...
Then, last week, Don Francisco struck another note. From Granada's gypsy dives to his upper story apartment he invited an accordion player, a tambourine player and two trumpeters. "My good fellows," he said, "make yourselves at home. For you there are comfortable beds, food, and all the wine you can drink, providing you do one thing: play your tunes loud as you can from...
...high points of the pilgrimage were the vigils in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. But by the third vigil, familiarity had so far bred irreverence in some of the company that they desecrated the shrine outright-bargaining with the Moslem merchants, "swilling [strong wine] till the bottles were empty." Some of the priests got into a wrangle over their turn to celebrate Mass, and the lay pilgrims were forced to intervene. And then there were those pilgrims who went about scratching their names on everything in sight, and hunting for souvenirs. Felix's own "irreproachable" collection of relics...
...offer comments and ask questions from the "floor" through an audio circuit tied in with the TV hookup. The "Closed Circuit Convention Plan" becomes available on April 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. Price: $11,000 for the first hour, with a 25% discount on additional time. Missing: the wine, women, song and bad jokes of that hitherto indestructible U.S. institution, the annual sales meeting...