Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lovely one of a galloping horse," says the major) Rubens' portrait of Grotius ("Actually, they tell me now it may be a Van Dyck"), and a painting by Rembrandt's pupil Dou called Woman Drinking Soup out of a Bowl ("Personally. I think she is drinking wine...
...fill her thrice-weekly columns for the Star (plus her once-a-week national column, now in 75 papers), Betty goes to 500 parties a year, avoids so much as a sip of wine for fear it will lull her into missing a story. Most of her parties are loaded with diplomats, and she prepares for them by studying the news carefully; she is always alert for the informed conversation that will give her a hard news story. "Getting anything out of the people who are the news of the day is the most important thing," she says...
...never heard such flattery." said one witness at the first meeting. Over dinner in the Palais Schaumburg's chandeliered Grosse Kabinettssaal, Rusk softened Adenauer with long reminiscences of his graduate student days in Berlin 30 years ago, of tours in the Rhineland, of the Weimar era. As the wine and champagne flowed, Rusk rose to toast U.S.-West German friendship, then turned to the old Chancellor with the ultimate and justified compliment. Seldom in a lifetime, said Rusk, did one have the opportunity to meet such a "historic personality." Next morning, in Adenauer's spacious office...
...shoe. At the end of the night, she turns the stirrers in for cash.'' Philadelphia Police Inspector Frank Rizzo told of boozy seminars with the girls of his city: "They start on regular liquor. Then they move up to champagne. Of course, the champagne is usually wine and soda.'' "Johns" who balk at the swizzle swindle are promptly returned to their senses by a successful threat: "We'll tell your wife." The tricks are the same in the deadfalls of Miami, Cleveland and Chicago's sinful suburb, Calumet City; in the bleak hope...
There was no violence; on the contrary, the drab little towns in the steep Asturian valleys took on a holiday air as idle workers strolled the streets with their families, or gathered at cafes to drink cider or the red wine of Leon and eat chorizos, the popular peppered sausages. Many listened to Radio Espafia Independiente. the Communist transmitter that spews its anti-Franco propaganda from Prague. Czechoslovakia (featuring La Pasionaria. legendary Red amazon of the Civil War). Since Franco's own press and radio were suppressing the whole matter. Prague was the only Spanish-language source of news...