Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formerly known to thousands of pleasure-lovers as the Dartmouth Carnival, the yearly orgy of sports, wine, and women has been tamed by college officials and most of the glamorous features have been declared taboo...
...immigrant from D.C. and the serious spectacles from Newton; they will learn to write and cease to quail before professors, and their voices will change, even in two and a half years. There will always be believers in the power of the press and lovers of the potency of wine--right through the duration...
...Leningrad-Vitebsk railroad, essential to German communication with Leningrad. In addition to claiming the death of 17,000 Germans, the Russians claimed the capture of 1,000 barrels of gasoline, 10,000 cans of Norwegian food, 150 freight cars of war supplies and "large stores" of good French wine...
...more than a year M. Guichard led his villagers back & forth. Then someone talked. German authorities checked up, found as many maidens walked out on moonlit lanes as ever before, as many men plowed the fields, as many oldsters sat in the sun, drinking the wine of Cérilly and upbraiding the quality of the bread. With Teutonic thoroughness, statisticians laboriously calculated that Cérilly had celebrated so many funerals that virtually every living soul in the village should be dead by now. Revealed at last was M. Guichard's sly scheme which had truly Gallic...
...Proof gallons. In 190-proof alcohol, two proof gallons roughly equal one wine gallon...