Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dinner is a family affair, with Kennedy, a meat-and-potatoes man, sometimes acting as chef. A favorite: steaks with lots of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. He drinks wine with his meals and takes a Scotch and soda or two at night. After dinner he often plays charades or other parlor games with the children until about 9:30, when he turns to his attache case for bedtime reading...
...recent years it has become almost an oral tradition for clerks to poke fun at Burger as a vain and pompous man who likes French wine, as well as all things English, particularly English barristers, whom he considers to be more "civilized" than American lawyers. On occasion, he has been preceded by a messenger who gravely announced to startled clerks, "Gentlemen, the Chief Justice of the United States." Paranoid about press leaks, he opposed Rehnquist's suggestion for a weekly tea with clerks because he thought it a security risk. The court's press officer, Barrett McGurn, regularly...
...symbol for what she disliked at the Quad. She and her husband turned down the Currier apartment offered for their visit. The house which opened that fall reflected "a combination of luxury and mess." She was "appalled at the surplus...the entertainment rooms stocked down to the last wine glass." How could students hold parties in such luxury and still spill yogurt on the dining room floor? Where were their manners...
When Dominique's, a French restaurant in Washington, advertised fresh Pennsylvania rattlesnake sauteed in wine for $9.25, Interior Department Herpetologist C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. whipped off a letter to the beanery urging that the reptile be spared. Pennsylvania's scarce timber rattlesnake is rapidly approaching extinction, he warned. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus got wind of the letter and promptly fired Dodd, mainly for sending a personal protest on official Government stationery...
...Carter Administration's effort to ease the nation into a short and shallow business downturn in order to slow inflation increasingly resembles the attempts in 1916 by Russian noblemen to kill Rasputin: they fed Tsarina Alexandra's mystic poisoned teacakes and wine, then shot him three times, and finally had to drown him in St. Petersburg's icy Neva River. Despite record-high interest rates, the long awaited recession still refuses to materialize definitively...