Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Japanese had joked when the Government cut down the strength of rice wine, had said that even goldfish could live in it. No one joked last week as he drank synthetic wine of potatoes and acorns...
President Pedro Agnirre Cerda is popularly known as Don Tinto because of the excellent red wine of the vineyards that made him rich. Rich President Aguirre's Popular Front Government reduced the price of bread from 2.20 pesos (11?) to 1.70 (9?) and the price of some meats by 40%, made available to workers who had never tasted milk 12,000 litres a day at 80 centavos a litre, returned from Government-owned pawnshops some 9,000,000 pesos worth of hocked tools and clothing. "Don Tinto," says the poor man of Chile, "es un muy buen hombre" (TIME...
...millions in Europe who have been living on ersatz news since May 1940 it would be meat and wine...
...Savoia-Marchettis of the Italian Lati line this week still took off for Rome. A hulking Frenchman named Reynaud, in charge of this field, likes to remember how the big Air France boats used to go through every few days with gifts for him, fresh vegetables from Argentina, wine and fruit from Dakar. Since France fell, he has not even received his salary. (Pan Am's Natal chief occasionally gives him a conto or two.) But he still keeps a tarpalin well spread over France's only plane at Natal, an old Fokker; he cuts the grass...
While the Popular Front swayed, bushy-mustached President Aguirre felt more & more like a man who does not govern but merely presides. He spent more & more time with the red wine he cultivates. Fort night ago he was reported...