Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improve the flavor of the cheese, crackers are also served at meetings, and to wash down the flavor of one cheese before sampling another, wine is served...
...trend away from the mere state of being well-fed towards a more refined expertise started several years ago when a resident tutor, Scymour O. Simches, founded the Adams House Wine Tasters Society. The organization became so popular that another separate group was formed this year...
...French army in time to be wounded again in Italy. Before war's end he went back into Germany and helped capture Karlsruhe and Freudenstadt for the Allies. Once De Castries strolled through a burn ing town during an enemy bombardment, calmly picked an inn where the wine cellar was to his taste and ordered lunch for his officers. The inn caught fire. De Castries just ordered more champagne. "We'll finish our meal," he told the innkeeper. "Send for the fire chief." To the chief he snapped: "Turn your hoses on this house...
...Give Them the Gun." An impetuous man, with tawny eyes, a constant wine flush on his cheeks and a towering reputation as a ladies' man, De Castries the soldier holds the high trust of his superiors (the late General de LaUre de Tassigny would never question a De Castries decision) and the admiration of his men, who often shout. "Here comes Cri-Cri [a diminutive for Christian]," when he runs up to lead a charge. "Allons " De Castries has been heard to shout back. "What the hell are you waiting for? Do you expect the enemy to send...
...between trips on his private time machine, Gérard wears an otherworldly expression that begins to worry his friends. Is he considering suicide? They ply him with wine, let him win at cards. In short, they make him late for his triple date in dreamland. And what happened to a man who kept a lady waiting in 1900, in 1830, and in 1790 proves to be so much like what happens today that the composer is cured of his nostalgia and decides to risk being contemporary-a risk considerably sweetened by the charms of the garage-owner...