Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...higher-echelon minority. They lie around in their grimy pads listening to westerns on TV with lines like "reckon that'll teach them moonfaced Indians to have more respect for a white man." Or they drive to a rubbly hilltop and hold war dances with jugs of wine, the galactic lights of the city spread below...
Chief criticism has come from some broadcasters and distillery executives, who feel that freer advertising would provoke the Prohibitionists. The broadcasters, however, freely advertise beer and wine, which, when used immoderately, can be just as overpowering as whisky. Last week NAB President LeRoy Collins strongly urged WQXR to reconsider, said that its position could "break down the gates." But Brooklyn Congressman Emanuel Celler congratulated the station for "wiping away the hypocrisy...
Five freshmen boys ran around emptying ashtrays and giving girls ("who looked like they needed it") some of the light wine and fruit punch. They carefully made off with all the pineapple that had been in the punch bowl afterward...
...After wine and pate, no product is more typically French than perfume. The French perfume industry sells $30 million worth of scent at home each year and, despite the rise of a huge cosmetics industry in the U.S., exports another $30 million worth. One reason for this success is the skillful art with which French perfume is marketed; it is subtly associated with haute couture, elegance and refinement...
...wine and candlelight supper in the dormitories will be followed by dancing at Agassiz. Real flowers and open fires will decorate the ballroom, and the surrounding gallery will be open to spectators...