Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one building had not been blown apart-the small inn. In its basement were big casks of wine and rows of bottles. There each night went one U.S. outpost patrol. Thither also (at a different hour) went one German patrol. The patrols never met. They spied on, but never surprised each other. It was too good a thing to be ruined...
Last week the unofficial armistice was ended, the playhouse wrecked. Major Asa Gardiner, suspicious because his G.I.s had" not griped over night patrol duty, sent a more trusted, less thirsty patrol under secret orders to the inn. Its men opened the casks, smashed the bottles, let the good wine run out on the earthen floor...
...hapless Gold Coasters have yet to win a game in the competition, having gone down to defeat three times. As it stands now, Lowell and Adams, only civilian Houses still functioning, will fight it out for the honor of ultimate reposal in Chief Dunlap's league wine-collar...
...dinner that evening Henry Wallace had his choice of great stacks of duck, eggplant, cheese, tinned crabmeat, smoked salmon, salami, sausages, cucumbers, cantaloupe, ice cream, Russian chocolates, port wine or brandy. The General gave the Vice President two brightly colored Sinkiang rings, one for himself and one for Franklin Roosevelt. In turn Henry Wallace produced a luscious rarity for the Governor's wife: fat strawberries from Alma Ata, Siberia. After two days he was off on the 1,500-mile trip to the key stop of his swing around Asia...
...Manche and Calvados, beside the hawthorne hedges, the farmers of Normandy stand with their families waving at every passing vehicle that throws dust into their faces. In the towns the Tricolor waves from nearly every building, the statues are decorated with American and British flags, and the townspeople take wine and cider to the soldiers who stop their trucks and jeeps in the streets. Seeing these things, you could be carried away by sentiment and say that the oppressed French are welcoming their liberators with tears of joy. But that would not be the whole truth...