Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constituent Assembly Premier Alcide De Gasperi wanly faced a bitter opposition. Said he: "The land invasion is unjustified, because seeding time comes in November." Said World War I Finance Minister Francesco Nitti, 78: "De Gasperi is like the sick man who, when the doctors told him to give up wine, women, and song, answered, 'I'll do it very gradually. For the moment I'll give up song...
...nightclubs must still tread warily to get around the licensing laws, which forbid liquor sales after 11 p.m. The commonest dodge is the "bottle party" (invented some 14 years ago), which provides that, for a year's fee of about ?3, guests sign an invitation list and a wine order. This permits signers to "invite themselves" to the club and drink liquor ostensibly purchased and owned by them, but kept on the premises...
...Fare of Power. Tito has obliged. Since the lean days of mountain fighting, his girth has increased considerably on the rich fare of power (and on sweets). He likes good eating. At official banquets, he serves whole roast boars, huge Polish hams, gallons of Dalmatian wine. Like his master, Tito's favorite Alsatian dog Tiger has also put on weight...
...decline and France's might conceivably surpass it in fifty years. Nothing could bring more peace of mind to France than the fulfillment tomorrow of that prediction, but just what the French are doing to make it come true could not be accurately ascertained by this reporter. The wine is good, though, and the dress shops and perfume counters again bear testimony to that peculiar aspect of French genius. Thanks to the industrious, if not too successful efforts of the dye industry, France today is a nation of blonde women and dark men--certainly an interesting biological phenomenon. Paris, August...
...Named for Benjamin Davis Wilson, a winegrower who blazed a trail up the 5,710-foot mountain in 1864 in search of lumber for wine casks...