Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet French wine town of Mâcon on the Saone, the hospital's doctors and nurses wore worried frowns. Even Madame Anne-Marie Demussy, the usually calm head nurse, seemed upset. Something very odd indeed was going on. In less than three years, 15 women patients had died mysterious deaths under very similar circumstances...
Philadelphia's Boies Penrose was a great, hearty extravert, whose lust for power was as obvious and simple as his appetite for oysters and wine. At the other end of the scale was Baltimore's John S. ("Frank") Kelly; though he ruled a state, he spent his life in one of the meanest little houses in the city, and took his pleasure from the fact that judges and governors and business leaders waited in his basement to be called into his presence...
...hallowed ground came humbler things, too. The ruins of an old Greek drugstore had urns marked "purgative" and "wine "wine sweetened sweetened with honey." A fragment of pottery (which the Greeks used as scratch paper) bore the curt instruction: "Leave the saw under the threshold." The diggers have already figured out how the Acropolis (citadel) of Athens looked at various periods of history, and have even built models (see cut}. But there is still much work to be done in and under the Agora. The diggers think that they have chores to keep them busy for the next...
...Lost Without You" has all the ingredients of an American Pullman Company advertisement. In the outskirts of Rome on an abandoned cathedral organ balanced on its wobbliest side by an empty bottle of chianit wine, Hurrier found the atmosphere complete for his first chapsodie creation. The inspiration, he says, was back in Mesdeville, Pa, a certain Mary Margaret White...
...cluster, taking turns sheltering each other from the wind, saving their strength for a late-afternoon sprint. The tour was broken into 21 laps, with overnight and one-day stops between (the cyclist with least total elapsed time is the winner). At frequent intervals, some of them sucked up wine by rubber hose from tankards on their handlebars. Ahead of the racers moved a cavalcade of commercials on wheels; behind came les suiveurs-masseurs, newspapermen, photographers. In some bombed towns, they had to be billeted in prisons and brothels...