Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Warfare is not in character for Laotians, a gentle people given to indolence, rice wine and frequent Buddhist festivals. But one noon last week civil war broke in the administrative capital of Vientiane, the City of Sandalwood. Tanks rolled through the streets firing in all directions. Mortar shells thudded down on hotels, embassies and shops. At a temple, 100 monks in saffron robes fluttered about like a flock of birds, seeking shelter behind big stone images of Buddha...
...strode down to wring Strauss's hand. After Strauss delivered a big Bavarian majority in the 1953 elections, Adenauer offered him the Ministry for Family and Youth Affairs. "Me, a bachelor, in charge of family affairs?" countered Strauss, who was leading a pretty gay life in the wine-houses of Bonn. He settled for Minister Without Portfolio, a likelier steppingstone to the defense ministry...
...Scotch whisky magnate (distiller for such brands as White Horse) who lost a leg in Mesopotamia in World War I, opened his first distillery with another one-legged veteran and, as his business prospered, gave away more than ?1,000,000 to British universities, zoos, hospitals and the Wine and Spirit Trade Benevolent Society; after years as an invalid; in Cove, Scotland...
...Pringle Wine Butterfly...
Eisenhower's statement also urged American officials in other countries to buy in the United States, even though higher costs are involved, Smithies reported. "This means that the commissary of the Paris embassy must stock California wine instead of French," he added...