Word: vin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fullback it will be Captain-elect Vince Moravec holding down the A-team honors in all probability. The improvement of Moravec during the '46 season into a really hard-hitting, bruising ball-carrier was one of the most notable aspects of the team, and Vin will also surprise the opposition from time to time with a quick-opening pass--a play he has almost mastered. Paul Shafer, who saw little action but much practice this year, and Freshman back Don Trimble will back up the fullback post...
...French wines ran from vin blanc at $2 a bottle to Bollinger at $8. The supply of Haig & Haig Scotch was limitless at 50? a drink. The Queen Elizabeth's shops had plenty of pajamas, woolen socks, and suits such as Britons have not seen for years. Out to corner the North Atlantic traffic, Britain had spared no expense nor luxury, even if it came out of the stay-at-homes' cupboard...
...prices comparatively low, the fun high. They crowded into the famed Au Lutin Qui Bouffe (The Greedy Imp) on St. Gregoire Street, where a baby porker ran around nuzzling the legs of diners, and apple pie arrived flaming in rum at the tables. They gobbled up the bread sticks, vin ordinaire (and extraordinaire) and hors d'oeuvres at the Cafe Martin, Chez Ernest and Chez Stien...
...Vin Moriarty scorned company in the two mile, almost half the track separating him from Line Thompson of Yale, who finished second, and Leo Page, as he crossed the finished line 10 minutes, 8.6 seconds after the starting...
...world's peace. Introduced as evidence: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano. Excerpt: " 'Well, Ribbentrop,' I asked him . . . 'what do you want? The Corridor or Danzig?' 'Not any longer,' and he fixed on me those cold Musée Grévin eyes of his. 'We want war.' " (In the dock, Ribbentrop shook his head in denial...