Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villa in Capri came best-dressed Mrs. Harrison Williams, in what the tabloid Daily Mirror called "a pale beige wool dress, with a deeper-than-usual neckline and longer-than-usual skirt." How had she found things? Said she: "A great many things are gone, including a most wonderful wine cellar. Not a bottle remains." But she kept her chin up. "C'est la guerre," said Mrs. Williams...
...those followers of the Crimson who were too wrapped up in wine, women, or coonskin coats to follow closely the disaster in the Wind bowl on November 23, a complete color film of the Crimson-Blue classic will be shown at 7:30 o'clock tonight on the third floor of the Indoor Athletic Building...
When Pertini made his surprising report, the Socialist party executive committee voted unanimously for joint action with the Reds. Even Socialist leader Ignazio Silone, an ex-Communist whose novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) are magnificent tracts against both Communism and Fascism, went along with Pertini. Explained Silone: "The greatest danger to Italian democracy today is not Communism. It is neo-Fascism...
...wood for the roof, we had to supply a, belt for a band saw. To get the belt we had to promise some cement in exchange. To get the cement we had to promise some wine. To get the wine we had to promise to help the wine merchant find an apartment. And we were able to find an apartment because I knew of a woman who had committed suicide because...
...Chile. Looking northward, the first of the five Andean republics is Chile, where spring had come hesitantly, like a girl from the sea, wet and cool. It was bad news for vineyardists that the wine crop was badly damaged by late frosts. It was bad news for Chilenos in general. Next year the common grades of wine might have to go above 18? a gallon (the same price as gasoline) and that would go hard with a nation which bows not even to the U.S. in its liking for alcohol...