Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success. At another party, given at the Monkey Club, an exclusive shelter and society finishing school for young ladies, a silver fountain gushed red wine all evening. "We wanted to have something original," explained the father of Debutante Christine Thorowgood. "Besides it's good wine...
Torn by the denigration-of-Stalin issue, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists lost more heavily than expected-several hundred thousand votes. But what Togliatti lost, his Socialist ally Pietro Nenni picked up. "It is like having a liter of wine and two bottles," said one former Communist cynically. "You may pour wine from one bottle to another, or back and forth as you like, but you still have the liter." One Italian voter in three was still voting the Communist line...
Americans. Both of you are friendly and outgoing." So, indeed, did Douglas find the average Russian. At his first Caucasian collective farm, Douglas ran into the problem of the vodka toast, decided then and there that he would stick to wine for the duration. When other hosts proudly laid a sheep's head and ear before him, Douglas manfully nibbled some meat from atop the cranium (quite tasty) and the center of the ear (quite gristly). This was only the ceremonial dish in what sometimes stretched into a 21-course meal. After some feasts, entertainment followed, and the guest...
...armed convoy of halftracks and trucks. In the area he visited, 80 of the 300 French farms had been burned in the past fortnight and 20 Europeans killed, some after torture. He visited one pillaged farm where vineyards had been torn up, buildings burned, 1,432 barrels of wine poured on the ground. Said the farmer: "I spent my life making this farm. My son and his son will spend theirs repairing the destruction-if they are still here...
Little Old Woman. Next afternoon the Armstrong crew held a "cultural exchange" on the Achimota college lawn with some 500 tribesmen, dancers and drummers. After a diplomatic round of palm wine and a furious round of tribal dances, the All-Stars took their turn. Africans received the jazz coolly until Royal Garden Blues stirred them up, and soon 30-odd tribesmen were doing jivey steps to the riffs. "Did you see that little old plump woman?" said Louis later. "When she danced, man, she was just like toy mother Mary...