Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deciding what to give whom. Some typical decisions of those days: for Stalin, a chocolate jack boot; for Molotov, a chocolate stool; for Khrushchev, a chocolate bottle; for Malenkov, a chocolate table; for Beria, a chocolate pistol. An excellent cook who likes to serve Armenian fare with bottled Crimean wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master." "Yes, yes," replied Mikoyan, with graveyard humor, "but my dear Lavrenty Pavlovich...
...When French Premier Guy Mollet's party visited Moscow last year, Mikoyan pressed them to visit his home republic of Armenia. Khrushchev joined in, saying that the Armenian climate was good, even though the food and wine were terrible. In due course, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Yerevan, capital of the Armenian Soviet Republic, on Turkey's eastern border. At his hotel Pineau was confronted by hundreds of French-speaking Armenians who had been lured back from France after World War II by Soviet blandishments to "come home and help build a new Armenian homeland." They greeted...
Like prideful vintners everywhere, the winegrowers along the banks of West Germany's Rhine and Moselle Rivers tend their vineyards with loving care and pray fervently that the inexplicable magic of sun, rain and vines will produce a wine to remember. Last week, as they prepared for this year's vintage festivals, a dark pall hung over the vintners. The reason: an intruder wine that everyone will remember for a long, long time. Without loving care, with only cheap grapes and a different sort of magic, one of their number had produced something that millions of Germans mistook...
Korn became a big businessman. He installed a battery of modern machines in his middle-sized wine cellar in Johannisberg, tapped a water main to get enough water, boosted production higher and higher. Bigness finally proved his undoing. At one point, he forgot to mix in exactly the right amount of potash to match the area's good wines, and a suspicious controller caught the mistake, also discovered Korn's heavy purchases from the local chemical dealer. He called the police...
...Wiesbaden awaiting trial. If convicted of fraud, he faces up to ten years at hard labor. To German winegrowers, the law-if anything-is too lenient. At their annual convention at Wiirzburg, they denounced Korn's alchemy as "Schweinerei" (swinishness), demanded harsher penalties against "gottverdammte Weinpanscher und Weinfaelscher" (wine waterers and wine phoniers). They fret that if Korn's secret is revealed in detail at the trial, the publicity may encourage others to follow his example. Said a Bonn barkeep: "If it's that easy to make good Niersteiner Domthal, I may just go around...