Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most students, however, still buy wine at the Pro. "The Pro is cheap. That's about all there is to it," Mark A. Ingram '77 said yesterday...
Ardent Spirits. Yet to most Americans good eating continued to mean an abundance of meat and strong drink. Early European visitors to America noted that "whiskey was the American wine," drunk diluted with all meals and in between by adults and children alike. Excessive, indiscriminate tippling eventually led to the passage of Prohibition, which the authors argue set back the development of American wine. Yet the nation's most famous glutton spurned ardent spirits for orange juice and lemon pop. Tales of Diamond Jim Brady's Gay Nineties gorging at Delmonico's in New York...
...which Howard Carter found them, lending an extra tingle to the exhibit. First comes selected contents of the tomb's antechamber. "Wonderful things," Carter had gasped when his candle flickered upon the objects that the 18-year-old pharaoh might need in the afterlife: alabaster cups for his wine, bejeweled amulets to ward off evil spirits, even an ivory-inlaid wooden throne to make him feel at home. But greater treasures lay ahead, as Carter discovered when he delved further into the tomb. What he saw (and what the exhibit visitor will see) was "strange animals, statues and gold...
Gallo's Vin Rose is supposed to be inexpensive and good, but isn't it made with the blood and sweat of exploited migrant child-laborers? You want to be a good citizen, and even Walter Mondale supports the United Farm Workers, so you decide against buying a Gallo wine...
Gallo, the world's largest winery, produces one-third of all the wine sold in this country. Because the winery is privately owned it does not publish financial statements or release statistics, but a UFW source estimates that Gallo sells at least $250 million worth of wine and reaps profits of at least $35 million each year...