Word: chianti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pause that Refreshes. The fair's most satisfying feature, everyone agreed, was the "Gastronomic Village," a broad enclosure with seats for 4,000 people at long tables which were piled high with roast chickens, rolls, and flasks of Chianti. In an open-air kitchen, three cauldrons five feet tall steamed with a never-ending supply of spaghetti. Enthusiastic eaters hacked their way through mountains of food at 450 lire (75?) a meal. After lunch, many stretched out under the shady trees, took off their shoes, spread a copy of Unita over their eyes, and slept...
Meanwhile Ricci had gone to fetch a couple of bottles of Chianti to give his caller as a Christmas present. He entered the study carrying the wine. Capocci brusquely announced he wanted to demonstrate a new invention, produced a large pair of tailor's scissors. He took them apart and challenged Ricci to a duel. He handed the blunt part of the scissors to the Minister and said: "I take it that as a gentleman you choose this...
Last week cariocas by the hundreds queued up on hot Rio docks to board the Lugano, a rehabilitated 13,000-ton troopship. On board, they gaped at a 250,000-book exhibit, some 1,000 paintings (mostly bad), modern ceramics, Chianti in wicker baskets, baby pants and electric iceboxes. All displays were for sale; they sold like nylons to Brazilians, who were used to paying more for their own shoddy products...
...about were black, well-made "Jerry cans" (for fuel), a dozen of which we collected and filled with water when we learned that the Nazis had oiled many of the wells farther west. Old tins of British-made "Kiwi" shoe polish lay side by side with empty bottles of Chianti. Pressed into the sand was a letter to a German soldier from his father in Düsseldorf...
...Chianti bottle in No Man's Land was in the middle of vast and incalculable affairs...