Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short-statured, sturdy-legged, even-tempered and given to such amiably negative remarks as "There isn't any," "It doesn't work'' and "It can't be helped." In most years Laotians catch enough fish, grow enough rice and yams and brew enough wine to allow ample time for their festivals. The Bang Fai festival just before the monsoon features the shooting off of giant rockets and noisy fertility processions during which huge phalli are brandished at giggling female spectators...
...simple enough. There was a 1933 hearse, for example, that the beatniks parked outside a nearby apartment house ("There are a lot of elderly people in that apartment building that don't feel very good anyway, and this bothered them"). A man declared that he saw beatniks drinking wine and beer, that he paid admission to attend a life class in the Gas House basement where a nude woman posed, and that he was propositioned by a homosexual. There were tales of lust, drink, and the strange sound of bongos emanating somehow from the sewers...
...seven handsome villages near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, some 1,400 members of one of the nation's strangest sects sat down last week to sausages, hams, homemade cheeses, beer and wine. The Amana Society was celebrating the 100th anniversary of its charter in Iowa, and the neat homes, the television sets, the modern appliances and the new cars all testified to prosperity-a prosperity that Amana has enjoyed since it rejected communism and turned with all its zeal to capitalism nearly 30 years...
...Wine at the Bottom. As the word got around, Chileans themselves started up to Portillo for a crack at its runs, such as the famed Juncal-down a 40° drop, to an iced-over stream and a snow bridge. At the lower stretches, where Chilean ski troopers were training, skiers could count on a swig of fine sparkling wine at the army post...
...puts his literary X-ray machine to work photographing the newly revealed conformations and deformations of man. In this collection of 16 short stories, Author Updike's plots vary-they may turn on a boy's whistle, a bachelor girl's bed, a bottle of wine-but the personality changes that result share the kinship of human nature well-observed...