Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard has cancelled happy hours and is insisting students check for either the liquor identification cards or Massachusetts drivers' licenses at public parties on campus where beer or wine is served...
...Cafe Promenade has a large selection of casseroles and cold and hot sandwiches--most of them in the $5-$7 range. The wine list is complete, but full bottles run from $7 to $30 and half-bottles are available only in a few instances. Carafes of house wine go for $6 half carafes...
...either scourged or stoned to death; falsely accusing a woman of adultery calls for 80 lashes-the same penalty imposed on a Muslim caught drinking alcohol. The equivalence of the two punishments exemplifies the time-honored logic of the Shari'a. The Koran forbade the drinking of wine, but did not specify a punishment; 80 lashes, however, was decreed for those who bore false witness. Making the analogy that drink leads to hallucination and to telling untruths, Islamic sages decided that the punishment for the two sins should be the same...
DRINKING AND GAMBLING. They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say: "In them is great sin, and some profit, for men: but the sin is greater than the profit...
PARADISE. (Here is) a Parable of the Garden which the righteous are promised: In it are rivers of water incorruptible; rivers of milk of which the taste never changes; rivers of wine, a joy to those who drink; and rivers of honey pure and clear. In it there are for them all kinds of fruit, and Grace from their Lord. (Can those in such bliss) be compared to such as shall dwell forever in the Fire, and be given, to drink, boiling water, so that it cuts up their bowels...