Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberalization of trade at home and abroad, to strip away masses of protectionist tariffs, duties and subsidies which have made French industry the most coddled in Western Europe. ¶ Agricultural reforms aimed at forcing the peasants to cut back production of uneconomic crops (e.g., wine, sugar beets for alcohol), and farm more efficiently. ¶ Overhaul of the maladministered cradle-to-grave social security program. <¶ An increase in real purchasing power, by linking wages to increased industrial profits. Inefficient plants must go to the wall; workers must be retrained and moved to new locations, especially in southern France where hydroelectric...
Only Viet Nam's Tran Van Do spoiled the friendly atmosphere. While negotiators and officials celebrated with wine and fine food, he scrawled out a statement: "I tender my resignation ..." Nobody paid any attention to the man who had stood helplessly by while 12 million of his countrymen were passed over into Communist slavery. "Reason and peace have triumphed!" cried Mendès-France...
Chou En-lai of Peking moved through Europe with the relaxed grace of a conqueror. He savored pâté de foie gras and raspberries with Mendès-France; he sipped wine with three Chinese actresses and an Occidental jester, Charlie Chaplin...
...Pope Pius XII, containing 86 papal pronouncements made between March 1953 and March 1954. In the 15 years of his pontificate, the Pope has made almost 1,000 pronouncements on such varied subjects as doctrine, the social order, music, art, journalism, education, sport, agriculture, war victims, commerce, microbiology, navigation, wine, penal law, silk, tourism, psychoanalysis, neuropsychiatry, army doctors, the poor...
Metaphysical Pingpong. Modern Italian Short Stories, compiled by Marc Slonim, is saturated with what Critic Cyril Connolly once called "the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Serving up life as if it were a huge platter of prosciutto and melon, the Italian authors offer highly palatable reading on such subjects as the folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare...