Word: wined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...approved full economic collaboration with Germany. French production of planes, tanks, artillery and munitions for Germany has increased, despite sabotage by slowdown and sometimes by violence. France has shipped to Germany 14,000 head of cattle a month, huge quantities of cheese, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat, fruit, champagne and wine reserves. Some 100,000 French skilled workers have been moved to Germany...
More of the Rothschild's property in France was confiscated by Vichy-this time three great wine-producing estates, including famed Chateau Lafitte (rare Bordeaux...
...good people of Zagreb retired to cafes to examine the situation over another glass of red wine. Having failed to discover any possible front on which their terrifying Ustachi could meet the wicked foe, the good people of Zagreb went quietly home and forgot...
...would show that on May 10, 1940 France had only seventeen 90-mm. anti-aircraft guns, that there were boots for only 3,000,000 French poilus, when 4,500.000 pairs were needed. This was recrimination with a snarl. It was no news to stricken France. Over their rationed wine the oldsters nodded their heads at an editorial in Le Temps...
Last Straw. In Miami Beach, a woman sued for divorce on the ground that her husband was "interested chiefly in wine, women, song and slow horses...