Word: cellaring
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...Koestler little is definitely known. But he has written the most exciting novel of the season. The book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...
With unerring instinct they led their men to a beerhouse, called the Bürgerbrau Keller, famed Bavarian cellar. Within was Bavarian Dictator von Kahr and some others. Dr. von Kahr was in the middle of outlining his state policy in which he denounced Marxism, when the door opened and in walked Herr Hitler and General von Ludendorff with some of their followers, who fired a few shots into the ceiling by way of effect...
Pennsylvania (7-3 overall, 5-2 in Ivies last year): Last year the Quakers rebounded from a 1-9 season in 1981 to tie for their first Ivy championship since 1959, and they have no intention of returning to the familiar confines of the Ivy cellar. Quarterback Gary Vura and halfback Steve Flacco are gone from last season's upstarts. But seven starters return on defense, including three second-team All-Ivy selections. One of them, cornerback Timmy Chambers, picked off six passes last fall. Kevin Bradley, who led the team in stops last year, returns with seven other lettermen...
...father. When Daddy came home, she made us tell him how much we hated him. I went to bed and prayed he didn't believe me. It was after I'd been married two years that my mother and brother bludgeoned my father to death in the cellar with his own pool cue. They stuffed his body in the car trunk and drove him to the middle of town and left him there...
...requires greater capitalization, for both expanded production and more effective marketing; even in big cities, the wines are still hard to find. The land, the climate and the demand for good wine, however, are there. Within ten years, they vow in the valleys, Yakima and Columbia will be wine-cellar words...