Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheeses, the stevedores trundled out 96,000 Ibs. of red squill, 224,000 Ibs. of argols, 90,000 Ibs. of bergamot oil, 74,000 Ibs. of lemon oil, 1,000 Ibs. of orange oil, 20,000 Ibs. of onion seed, 5,500 bags of briarwood, 66.000 gals, of wine...
These were staples of prewar Mediterranean imports. Red squill, a plant that resembles the onion, is dried and processed into rat poison. Argols, scales that form on the lining of old wine vats, are a crude form of potassium bitartrate. Bergamot oils are used in perfumes and soaps...
...Tass) with fat Hermann Göring, who had a personal reason for fury. The Russians had seized Göring's favorite hunting lodge in the East Prussian deer forest of Rominter Heide, after scattering the SS regiment on guard there. They found the lodge's wine cellar well stocked with French champagne, the study table piled with topographical maps annotated in handwriting believed to be Göring's own. A meal prepared in the kitchen had never been served...
What Price Unity? In proletarian Paris the people dine on soup, macaroni, maybe a little bread and sour wine. But among Communist leaders there is confidence in approaching victory. The Communist Party is the only party which is well organized, and has a program. It is growing...
...blanket. When his salary at a press-clipping agency was upped to 30 shillings a week, he was in clover. In Sussex, in a farmhouse that had once been a priory, in a big sunny room with casement windows, he wrote his first, brilliantly titled, critical book, The Wine of the Puritans...