Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Election Day a remarkable 96% of the eligible voters, mellowed by warm spring sunshine and batches of Heurigen (new wine), went to the polls in Free Austria's first national election. Result: a gain of eight Parliament seats-to 82-for Chancellor Raab's party, an increase in Socialist seats from 73 to 74. Both parties gained at the expense of the far right and left (Communist groups polled only 4.4% of the vote), but the victory of Raab's party presaged a slowdown in Austria's headlong nationalization...
...extensive series of wash drawings done in Bulgaria make up a large part of the current exhibit. They indicate one way Gropper has accommodated his social consciousness to a new era. These drawings capture the very different mood of these people, wine growers and shepherds. A few simple lines delineate their oriental features and the plodding routine of their life. The artist is also sensitive to the different background of this country, the tall mountains and peculiar lighting...
...Dear Wine. In Chile, by contrast, dollar-earners have recently suffered a setback. Freed to find its own rate (TIME, April 23), the peso is hovering around 480 to the dollar; the free market has wiped out an earlier, limited trading in scarce "tourist dollars" at more than 600. The peso's comeback, plus last year's inflation (now checked), has pushed the price of a bottle of gran vino, for example, from 25? to $1 for dollar earners. Brazil's cruzeiro has been slipping steadily on the limited free market, but local price inflation has kept...
Dancing in the Churchyard. After that the landlords gave less and less to Padre Zamorano's church, and that led to the incident of the gambling party. Right in the churchyard, the peasants played roulette, held a raffle, drank wine and danced; Padre Zamorano himself pounded the piano and sang. The proceeds, fortunately, were substantial and went to support Catapilco's school, founded by Zamorano...
...Renounces All, including the love of the neighboring squire's daughter, a girl with an "air of quiet composure, a sense of inescapable good breeding," who appreciates "the essential fineness of Stephen's character." He rushes off to Paris, whose air exhilarates him. How? "Like wine...