Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through his training course in Brussels, he led an austere life. He had little relaxation except an occasional motorcycle ride or an hour or so of his favorite music (Mozart, Bach, Handel). At parties, he might have a glass of wine, more often called for orange juice (he also likes malted milk, a taste he picked up in the U.S.). He was usually...
...Peace Comes. In Korea last week, on the first day of the sixth month of the lunar year, dutiful elder sons went through a little ceremony. They placed bowls of rice or cups of wine before wooden frames that held thin paper strips. On these were written the names of relatives recently dead. All over the country, there were many paper strips in many frames...
...tragic vigil is interrupted by a soldier with six bodies--hanging on six trees, the last a holly--which he has been assigned to guard. While his adoration of the window's perfect grief blossoms into physical passion, which the aid of a jug of wine, one of his bodies is foully stolen, rendering him certainly its successor. For section six, paragraph three of the regulations quite definitely prescribes hanging for such neglect of duty. The solution is a triumph of wit over propriety...
...When preparing pot roast of horse, the cook should remember that the meat tends to be sweet. More onions should be used and fewer carrots. If the roast is cooked slowly in red wine, as some prefer, a sour wine should be used. In broiling horse fillets, spread some butter over the meat because it is lacking...
...wettest June in Paris' memory. "Summer already?" grumped the Communist L'Humanité. "And what about spring? A day without sunshine, or a meal without wine, that's bad enough-but a year without spring, that's indeed a hard blow. And all this is again the fault of the Americans. Not only do they occupy our land . . . but they shut off our sunshine!" The Communist journal then expounded a thoroughly unlikely theory that France's bad weather was the direct result of U.S. atomic experiments on faraway Eniwetok Atoll. "Thus," it cried, "while...