Word: vino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very Catholic exposition involves a waif who is left before the gates of a Franciscan monastery, is taken in by the monks, strikes up a friendship with a crucifix in the attic and is apotheosized at age five in a very unconvincing sequence as Marcelino Pan y Vino...
...light of the world blazed in the simple attic, and all the brothers coming in fell down on their knees and worshiped what they saw. And from that day forward, the people came from the length and breadth of the land to adore the miracle of Marcelino Pan y Vino...
...Vino. In Manhattan, after a prosecution expert argued that the two defendants could not each have downed the equivalent of two fifths of whisky in 18 hours and remained conscious, 260-lb. Defense Lawyer Edward Bobick boozed through two fifths of Scotch in 15 hr. 53 min., stood unassisted in court less than an hour later, solemnly introduced the empties as evidence...
...peso is hovering around 480 to the dollar; the free market has wiped out an earlier, limited trading in scarce "tourist dollars" at more than 600. The peso's comeback, plus last year's inflation (now checked), has pushed the price of a bottle of gran vino, for example, from 25? to $1 for dollar earners. Brazil's cruzeiro has been slipping steadily on the limited free market, but local price inflation has kept step, and only the country's famed gem stones are real bargains. In Peru, too, local prices have mostly caught up with...
...Preacher" about the birds and the bees. She asks him to her room. He does not realize what she is suggesting. Like many people who suffer guilt in imagination, he is pathetically innocent in real life. She takes him on a picnic instead. He drinks buttermilk while she drinks vino, shyly confesses that she is the first girl he ever took out. And suddenly, with a luminous sweetness rarely seen on the screen, they are in love, and love transforms them. His sore soul heals like a wound in sunlight, and her shut face bursts open like a merry parasol...