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Word: wined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fanatic nature of some of the Communist stalwarts was surprising, especially the Iraqi and Saudi Arabian party members. Their idea of fun was to gather in the Afro-Asian restaurant every night from 11 until 3 a.m., and bind themselves together in a frenzy of red wine and an orgy porgy of "peace and friendship...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Vienna Festival Chants 'Peace, Friendship' | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

...Francisco slum neighborhood. While there, he received a letter that read: "Al, how about attending a reunion of our class in Washington, D.C. this fall? It would be our 30th anniversary reunion." The letter was signed "Curt" (LeMay). It was found last week near an empty wine bottle, a yellowing Army commission-and the body of Al Beatie, 56, dead of cirrhosis of the liver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Missing from the Reunion | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...only too happy to have him share her apartment. She thought he was a Canadian test pilot named Johnny Bird. Then, one night last January, for reasons he was never quite able to explain, Hume wandered off to a church, where he drank up all the communion wine. Next morning, armed with a pistol, he turned up at a small branch of Zurich's Gewerbebank to help himself to "a spot of cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: The Slippery One | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...mainland (see FOREIGN NEWS), Hsinhua's Hong Kong bureau even tried a capitalistic-style venture into public relations. Staffers made one of their rare appearances outside the building on Sharp Street, played host to some 480 guests (non-Western journalists, diplomats, college professors) at a beer, wine and nibbles reception at the Gloucester Hotel. Asked how many Hsinhua staffers there are in Hong Kong, one replied in good Hsinhuaese: "Oh, we have several journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News from China | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...when I die Bury me with my head under the tap So that if a drop of that very good wine falls I can get some good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk Hunter | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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