Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bamboo flutes tweedled, brass gongs thrummed, and Montagnard maidens twisted ceremonial copper bracelets round the wrists of President Nguyen Van Thieu, Premier Tran Van Huong and other South Vietnamese dignitaries. Stoically, the visitors sipped from the brimming urns of mnam kpie, a sour-tasting homemade rice wine. Then they moved on to lunch in the comfortable former summer residence of exiled Emperor Bao Dai, in the highland provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot. The Saigon dignitaries, together with a host of American officials, were joining in ceremonies marking what they hoped would be the end of a tribal rebellion...
...that. On his desk lies a splintered canoe paddle with which he punishes boys who make trouble. Another weapon is the public address system, which Dulin uses to chastise errant students. This fall, for example, he publicly raked over some football players for "tugging on ripple" (cheap wine). Unorthodox in style and cyclonic in energy, the principal is often at odds with his superiors, as when he called off school the day the Detroit Tigers won the World Series last year. "Let me be the judge of when days off are relevant," says Dulin. "I might want to give them...
Divorced. By Lee Remick, 33, whose brilliant blue eyes and dazzling smile have lighted movie screens since 1957 (Days of Wine and Roses, The Detective); Bill Colleran, fortyish, TV producerdirector; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility after eleven years of marriage; in November in Juarez, Mexico...
Cold Shoulder. Atlanta-born Parks grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His father was a wine steward, his mother a some time domestic servant. After working his way through Ohio State ('39); he joined the Pabst Brewing Co. and later headed a small group of Negro salesmen who cultivated ghetto markets for the firm. After settling in Baltimore in 1944, he started the sausage firm in 1951. Just what he did during the years between is a bit vague...
...youthful employees, recruited from France and other countries, wear no uniforms, accept no tips and mingle freely with the guests. The emphasis is on food and fun. The club serves hearty if standard French cuisine-langouste à la parisienne is a typical dish-and an unlimited quantity of free wine at meals...