Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Topics B and C as well. His preoccupation with small-town sociology and the lives of secondary characters sometimes leads him to freight his dialogue with extra information until it sounds like a young playwright's first act. The experiment may be merely an attempt to put old wine into a slightly new bottle. It is not vintage O'Hara, but the vineyard is unmistakable...
...diplomatic port of call. Lisbon is hardly on the grand circuit. It provides such minor challenges as working for steady trade in wine, sardines and cork. There are also the knotty problems of negotiating the renewal of a treaty for continued use of U.S. military bases in the Azores*and of smoothing out relations ruffled by U.S. support of U.N. anticolonial resolutions involving the Portuguese colony of Angola. To make way for Anderson, the present ambassador, C. Burke Elbrick, 55, a career diplomat who has held the Lisbon post since 1958, will be reassigned...
...jovial, were feasting at the board of their medaled host, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. As waiters in green-and-gold livery moved among food-laden tables, the throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor's select group of flimsily clad dancing girls writhe to the tootles of the Imperial Bodyguard Band...
About to spear an artichoke with her fork, a diner seated across the table from Diet Specialist Ancel Keys asked: "Do you approve of artichokes?" "Absolutely," replied Keys, downing a glass of polyunsaturated white wine...
Poetry for Rest. As much at home in the drawing room as over a row of figures, Jacobsson wrote mystery stories and read Swedish lyric poetry for relaxation. He was able to combine his love of food, wine and traveling as he crisscrossed the world to check I.M.F. activities, and he dined and negotiated with most of the world's rulers. The seven-room apartment that he shared with his Irish-born wife in Washington was cluttered with photographs of his three daughters (one of whom is married to the first four-minute miler. Roger Bannister) and eleven grandchildren...