Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hopper (5) 9. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (6) 10. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton...
...WINE IS BITTER, Eisenhower...
...they had done quite a bit of conspicuous consuming: 25,000 meat pie appetizers, 40 whole roasted calves, 40 chickens, 150 lambs, 8,800 loaves of bread and numberless pounds of fresh fruit, 22,000 bottles of soda pop, 600 bottles of beer and 11,000 bottles of red wine. The marvel was that only ten people fell ill with what the medics called "gastric prostration." "The very quantity," mused Buenos Aires' daily Clarin, "leads one to forget for a moment the notion that 'Argentina is an underdeveloped nation...
Habitually resplendent in a natty wool jacket, skirt and beaded cap, the paramount chief spends most of his time quaffing Simba beer and palm wine, the latter poured for him from a blue enamel teapot...
...like Anthony Carson, you are born in London and have a taste for sunshine, girls, wine, and music extorted from goat's bladders, your problem is pretty well insoluble. In a collection of 50 sketches, which add up to a zany autobiography, Carson has told just how he defied the odds and beat civilization's big rap-the steady job-and still managed to eat, travel, get drunk and make love...