il vino sa di tappo ; il vino sa di sughero [raro] does NOT mean that the wine bottle is closed with a cork, but rather that the wine has an unpleasant smell and taste of mouldy cork! corky wine
The following year, the American Rheumatism Association (ARA) merged with the Foundation. In 1965, an additional professional society, Allied Health Professions, was established within the Foundation; its name was changed to the Arthritis Health Professions Association (AHPA) in 1980.
He asked his wife Lois, who was sixty at the time to start a clearinghouse for the post that was coming in. The founding of the fellowship called Al-Anon dates from May 1951 when two extraordinary, ordinary women, Lois W and her friend Anne B posted 87 letters to addresses given to them by the Alcoholic Foundation in New York.