Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kentucky's old (72) ex-Congressman Andy May stood up in a Washington federal court last week and proclaimed: "I have never tasted liquor, wine or beer . . . if I go to jail my grandchildren will drop out of college." The two Garsson brothers appealed for mercy too. Henry Garsson made a speech; Murray Garsson wept softly. The Garssons had been convicted of giving May bribes of $53,000 while running a shoestring into a $78 million munitions combine (TIME, July 25, 1946 et seq.); all three faced maximum sentences of six years, fines of $30,000. Judge Henry...
...British zone, a Ruhr miner washes his coal-streaked body in the daylight after eight hours' work underground, then sets out for the countryside to trade some clothes for bread. In the French zone a winegrower watches police break into his garage. They haul out ten cases of wine which he had set aside to sell to an American for cigarets...
...crowded, sleepless, dance-filled, dust-filled, wine-filled week of the festival of San Fermin at Pamplona is the climax of Spain's bullfighting year. Last week Spain's greatest season of the corrida in a generation came to a great climax. When the toro malo, the bad one with 21 painted on his side, lay dead in the sand, the aficionados had seen about all there was to see at bullfights...
...Wine may still stop its flow at Wellesley's verdant borders, but not so women or even song of the hotel orchestra variety. The 500 wooded acres on Lake Waban are currently the home of the only college-sponsored theatre in America, marking opening night tonight replete with aircraft escort...
Outside, someone pushed a .30 caliber carbine through a rose trellis, drew a careful bead, put two shots into Bugsy's head, two into his body. A shot that went wild lodged in an oil painting of a nude woman, holding a wine glass...