Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With rare beef and red wine, 320 A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders in Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week celebrated their new no-raiding pact. C.I.O. President Walter Reuther and A.F.L. President George Meany supped at the same table, then rose to call for a united labor movement. The pact, said Meany expansively, was "the first step toward unity...
...questioned Pierre's parents, learned that the boy drank a liter (1.0567 qts.) of wine each day, and at night often got port "because he was a little nervous." Alarmed by Pierre's case, Psychiatrist Serin alerted Paris' clinics, soon uncovered three more cases of child alcoholism...
...Lucien, 5, a sickly, insomniac youngster, was so unstable that he could not be left alone. The son of wealthy parents, he drank nothing but undiluted wine, in accordance with his father's decree: "Water propagates infantile paralysis...
...Yvonne, 3, another wine drinker, refused to get into her bed because it was "full of toads and big fish...
...never before," when he notices that the elevator is going "down and down interminably." It does not stop until the Devil ("stylishly dressed in tails that hung on [his] hairy top vertebra as on a rusty nail") opens the grille and leads the lovers into a hellish hotel bedroom. Wine is brought them by a very "stern, very grave" waiter with a bullet hole in his temple: he is the lady's husband, who has just committed suicide. "I hope you've been comfortable," says the Devil, when the anguished lovers scuttle back to the elevator. "Hell...