Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glee came from a girl who confessed: "My boy friend took me out on my 21st birthday and wanted to show me a very special good time. I usually don't go in much for drinking, but I had three martinis. During dinner we split a bottle of wine. After dinner we had two brandies. Did I do wrong?" Quipped Abby: "Probably...
...Hansjurg, and a new generation scrawls its names across the guest book: Henry Ford II, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Hutton. For its 400 guests the Palace maintains a staff of 300, including 40 cooks, who daily turn out half a ton of fancy meats and 1,000 pastries. The wine cellar is stocked with 60,000 fine bottles, the tanks with 800 live trout...
...found eight Freedom Fighters. They looked all right, so I joined them." Together they barricaded Baross Street and cut out an escape route in the cellar of the restaurant. "It was a funny time," says Ferenc. "The owner of the restaurant and everyone else had left, leaving his wine bottles on the shelf. Several were empty, but beside them was a stack of money, the exact price of each bottle...
...Russians on top of the roof across the street from us?I hadn't even seen them?started shooting. I said to myself. 'This is death' and felt pretty calm." Ferenc and the boy got away. At the restaurant Ferenc took a big drink of the restaurant owner's wine, left him some money, went home and slept for 36 hours...
...papers snatched away and torn to shreds. There was water, gas and electric power, but no traffic police. Some Soviet tanks stood roped off in planted positions, but armored cars patrolled continuously. In front of the National Theater, Sunday gathering place for Budapest, an old man, made brave by wine, smashed his empty bottle against a Soviet tank. Police rushed in, beat up the old man with rifle butts. This was too much for the crowd. They roughed up the police. The Russians fired a machine gun over their heads...