Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From then on, the Reds no longer needed Groza. They fed his egomania, allowed him always to win at tennis, to keep his wealth, to indulge his tastes in wine, women and sports-"anything I can buy with money." In 1952 they kicked him upstairs to the post of chief of state...
Sweepstakes. In Detroit, three thieves robbed a grocery of beer, wine and assorted meats, realized they would leave tracks in the snow, took a broom from a rack and carefully erased their footprints as they went, were caught anyway by police, who simply followed broom marks to the right door...
...after the U.S.S.R. hiked the state-pegged price of vodka, paunchy Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin hoisted a glass at a Moscow embassy reception, quipped to reporters: "We raised the price so you could reduce! People should drink wine more. It's much better...
Tranquilizer. In Hicksville, N.Y., Alex Szwetowski pleaded innocent to drunken driving, admitted he had been drinking when arrested after an accident but insisted that he was only sipping some wine to soothe his nerves...
...Wine-Soaked Roof. Although used for endless entertaining, Palladio's villas were meant for what that luxurious age considered casual living. Wide windows and huge doors opened on fine river views and prospects, tempting water gardens and statuary-decked lawns. Linking the central, porticoed mass to grounds were long colonnades on either side-a device which, whether repeated in Ireland, England or Virginia, appears to set the building harmoniously in the landscape...