Word: vino
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...basically exciting story (bandits v. ranchers) which, in this version, has no more suspense than a mystery story read backwards. Ava is the wife of a handsome, brave, wooden-faced Texas rancher (Howard Keel), who gets into a feud with a Mexican bandit (Anthony Quinn), a fellow who uses vino as a gargle. This bandit has a lieutenant, a handsome, brave, wooden-faced desperado (Robert Taylor). Gardner takes one look at Taylor and her earrings start aquivering...
...round assertion that philosophy, in the image of somebody called David Hume, really created empirical science even if no scientists had ever suspected this. Vag was stimulated, to say the least, as he directed his steps towards Cronin's, self-advertised as the Morey's of Harvard. "In vino veritas," he murmured, "is enough philosophy for me. And science can wait for Friday...
Last week, under a huge canopy of festive lights paid for by the Giornale, Trasteverini thronged happily to the feast. The sponsors had discarded an original plan to crown as "Miss Vino" the Trastevere girl who could drink the most wine, thought it would be even more imprudent to hold a regular beauty contest. "The first," explained a committeeman, "would not be dignified in these times; the second would be too dangerous, because there are too many girls in Trastevere who are the most beautiful...
Roads of Escape. Inflation-battered Fulano de Tal, the common man, was so weary of cramming into broken-down trolleys, standing in line for tea, and going without a new shirt that he was apt to buy a cheap bottle of vino and say to hell with it all. Or, working at 75? a day in Lota's undersea coal mines where cave-ins occur almost daily, and living in a hillside of hovels where each year more babies die than are born, he turned to Communism...
...vino veritas," he smiled cheerfully as he lurched into the exam. Appearing ninety minutes later, he qualified his statement with "Veritas, may be, but not mut French C. Next time we'll try absinthe...