Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crossexamination, the dour Mardian came on strong. He tried to overwhelm Assistant Special Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner by sneering contemptuously at her questions. To one, he replied: "Go ahead and make a speech, Mrs. Volner." When she asked a follow-up question, he shot back: "Do you want me to say yes-yes?" Ignoring rebukes from Judge Sirica, Mardian frequently turned to the jury to deliver his own version of the evidence...
...Bombs. Lately, though, some of his activities had been running into trouble. A wine company that he owned called Connoisseurs of Claret, Ltd. lost more than $100,000 in 1973. The general manager of the London Capital Group, a dizzy assortment of investment interests controlled by Stonehouse, and the managing director of his trading company, Global Imex, both resigned last summer claiming that Stonehouse owed them $35,000. Stonehouse put a country house that he bought two years ago up for sale and closed Global Imex's office in Bangladesh. It was apparently in search of additional financing...
...that Jonah or Adam and Eve were historical and that Jesus turned water into wine. Osing's views proved too much for his conservative parishioners. "The Lutheran Church has always been based on the Bible," explains Phil Beck, production manager of a local paint company and the church's Sunday-school superintendent. "If you start questioning it, where do you stop? If I have to have that much education to sit down and understand Genesis, then why did God ever let Luther put it in the people's language? At what point do I throw the whole mad mess...
...dins, everyone!" First, imported sardines, then chicken croquettes in white wine sauce, with a few Yummies to follow. That's for Samantha. For Buddy, there are flamed medallion of beef and vitamin-enriched doughnuts. Carol's getting fruit treats...
...West Coast tycoon has sold one of his two yachts. A socially prominent Manhattan couple has switched from vintage to nonvintage champagne, while some of their affluent friends provide only California jug wine-in Waterford decanters. A Los Angeles millionairess, Elsie Pollack, now features chili at her dinner parties; another wealthy hostess has replaced cut flowers with synthetic centerpieces. A Chicago industrialist has turned in his Cadillac for a relatively miserly Mercedes 220 with a diesel engine that gets up to 32 m.p.g...