Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tuesday morning I entered the city from the southwest up Mapo Boulevard. Three months ago Mapo was a bustling, cheerful sycamore-lined thoroughfare with a doubletrack trolley, grocery, wine and tea shops and a sprinkling of residences. This morning Mapo wore a different look. The burned and blackened remains of the boulevard's shops and homes sent clouds of acrid smoke billowing over the city. Buildings still ablaze showered sparks and ashes high into the air to cascade down on red-eyed, soot-faced marines...
...cavalcade pulled up at the Capitol, a fire-blackened, bullet-pocked shell of masonry, its rooms and offices still strewn with the enemy's litter-Russian-made helmets and burp guns, half-consumed bottles of beer and wine. There MacArthur met his friend and ally, South Korea's President Syngman Rhee, who had winged up from Pusan in the general's old plane Bataan...
...wine that made Corinth the leading resort of the olive-oil-lit era. It was the 1,000 beautiful girls who paraded up & down the long colonnade, sat in the bars at intimate little tables, danced or made music on ivory flutes for all who could pay the cover charge. These young women of Corinth were famous all over the classical world for their beauty and talent. They were not mere prostitutes, Professor Broneer says firmly. They were "Hetairai"-more like Japanese Geishas, trained in the arts and sciences, skilled in conversation. But the professor admits that from some...
...Roman Group, Turchi explained that they are "not what people like to call a 'school.' " They merely meet once a month to argue about music over plates of pasta and bottles of white wine. If they ever agree, it is because "we've gone through the common experiences of our generation and we must express them to people...
Drinkin' of the wine...