Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best-tasting grass," says one participant, "you might win a bottle of wine; for the best-smelling grass, a snort of cocaine. It's a lot of fun and everybody's relieved that they made it through the season...
...cream gravy, roast beef and steak; there are hot breads and lemon pie. One couple does object testily when the steward is unable to produce a corkscrew for the bottle of Moulin-á-Vent '76 they had brought to table. It turns out that the train does serve wine, but "it's all twist-top," the steward explains. Smoking is banned in the dining car. Both breakfast servings produce perfectly cooked eggs any-style with a choice of grits and cream gravy, sausage, bacon, hash, broiled ham and, as a post-Atlantan flourish, exemplary French toast. All food...
...family when Plains became a place to see, and now he is. For the wedding, cars jammed the farm land below the house, and vans hauled guests up the hill. Beyond the pool were tables of food (roast beef, lobster balls) and booze (California pink champagne, Blue Nun wine, Billy Beer and gallons of harder stuff). A large aluminum boat was packed with ice and jammed with wine and champagne...
...last installment about municipal mix-ups, Wichita, Kans., had just received 15 cases of wine from its sister city, Orleans, France. But the wine had to be held in a warehouse because a tax of $10.36 had to be paid, and state law forbade the city to pay taxes on liquor...
About that wine. The state legislature, at an estimated cost of about $10,000 in time spent, passed a special act to pay the $10.36 tax. One official who finally drank some of the wine pronounced it "just excellent...