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Word: wined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Publicity pays. The membership at Henry's Hideaway has soared to 700 of all faiths. The English writer Hilaire Belloc put it another way: "Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there is always laughter and good red wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 26, 1984 | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...wine and cheese improve with age, why not Presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1984 | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...hand to show how he had chopped off half his ringer to prove his repentance after having been disrespectful to his leader. He had put the severed finger in a small jar and sent it to the gang boss. One expert on the Chinese gangs told how members drank wine laced with both human and chicken blood while being initiated into their crime societies. He claimed that they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with heroin and carried across international borders by young women posing as the mothers of sleeping babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triads and the Yakuza | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...striking example of what the author calls "an overdeveloped inner life." Bernadette is a stinging portrait of stupidity (a pimp recruits her with veiled threats, and she mistakes him for a social worker). Blore is an overbearing ass who makes a big production about serving a modest Spanish wine and talks of W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence as if he has discovered the latest bestseller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Misanthrope | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

ENTER, CHARLY. The wine commercial turns out to be an Israeli ruse to lure her to Greece where, according to the plan, she will ensnare the randy Michel and his brother Khalil with her womanly wiles...

Author: By Mollv Chff, | Title: Terrorists in Love | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

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