Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a bottle of rice wine, a can of kerosene, a sharp knife, he went far into the brush. Fortifying himself with the wine, he sloshed kerosene over the tindery brush, lit it, then made an earnest effort to disembowel himself...
...Baron's bedside swarmed big shots from Prince Konoye down. Emperor Hirohito sent a basket of fruit. In Japanese court etiquette this meant that the Son of Heaven held hope for his recovery. Had the gift been imperial wine, it would have implied that the Baron's sukiyaki was considered cooked. The Baron took the hint: at week's end he was reported to be rallying strongly...
Edmund Wilson's ranking among topflight U.S. literary critics will not be bolstered by his new book. But he still writes, as few Americans can, with the dry-wine deftness of a cultivated Frenchman. And his findings are still of value to all serious students of literature...
London gave its whoppingest luncheon reception of the war to Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, visiting lion of the hour. Cost: about $2,000. Among those present: 18 cabinet members. Rare gastronomical tributes: chicken, fresh asparagus, white wine, aged French brandy. ∙∙ Aluminum Multimillionaire Paul Mellon, 34, son of the late Andrew W. Mellon, volunteered for Army service to beat draft deferment because of his age, asked assignment to the cavalry. ∙∙ Ex-Ambassador Joe Kennedy's son, Joe Jr., 25, reported for Navy training as a flying cadet at Squantum, Mass, ∙∙ John T. Dorrance...
...close on July 7, it found Japan this week still fighting, still strong-but taut, unhappy, sour. Much changed is war-weary Japan. Rice is rationed. Meatless days are a patriotic duty-only blubbery whale meat is on the free list. The production of warming sake (rice wine) is discouraged. Sugar has been replaced by long-forbidden saccharin in many commercial foods. Bitterest of all to the nervous, twitching Japanese is the shortage of cigarets...