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Word: dubonnet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sipping beers and Dubonnet, listening to Swing-era music, and munching on Boursin and crackers, they lined the baseball field parking area "in normal numbers, for a game like this," according to a parking attendant...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: It Was a Home Opener With a Twist: Harvard Outnumbered in the Stands | 9/18/1976 | See Source »

...both incarnations, he occasionally indulges a well-cultivated taste for Dubonnet, Scotch, brandy, port or stout. Even Moynihan's critics concede that his unfailing Irish wit and cheer make him a good man to take on a pub crawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A FIGHTING IRISHMAN AT THE U.N. | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

Unusually subdued, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan stood last week at the bar in the delegates' lounge at the United Nations building, sipping red Dubonnet on the rocks and glumly sidestepping questions. A few minutes earlier, he had canceled a press conference at which he had intended to announce that he was resigning because of criticism of his don't-tread-on-me style as ambassador. But in a series of frantic, last-minute telephone calls, high Administration officials had persuaded him to postpone his decision and talk over his grievances this week with President Gerald Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: President Ford Averts Another Shake-Up | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...night he sips at a glass of Mateus rosé, a Portuguese substitute for red Dubonnet, which is suspected of a higher calorie count. But beyond that, he looks and in some ways acts as well as ever, maybe a little better. His hair is bleached, his skin tanned from weekend sun on his Pocantico Hills golf course with his two sons and Club Pro Chi Chi Rodriguez. A medical lab, after studying his charts and X rays, reported: "This man is 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Rockefeller in the Boiler Room | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...right hand to write, playing tennis with his left. He was lefthanded as a boy, but his father tied a string to his left wrist at the dinner table. When Nelson tried to eat southpaw, his father gave a yank. Rockefeller does not smoke and only occasionally has a Dubonnet on the rocks or some wine. There is no way of telling that he is a Rockefeller from his dress. His nondescript suits are invariably rumpled, his ties unmemorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: A Natural Force on a National Stage | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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