Word: wineskins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After a sleepless all-night train ride, crushed into a stuffy corridor crammed with Spaniards on their way to Pamplona, I arrived on the first day of the fiesta. The city was jammed and the wine had already begun to flow in the streets. I promptly bought myself a wineskin and some dirt-cheap red wine, and, with a little practice, I developed a proficiency in squirting the juice into my mouth so that it hit the back of my throat. The night came, the music eddied up toward the moon, and there was dancing in the streets, almost...
...game meandered on toward halftime. Trevor looked around some more. Up along the colonnade a wineskin was making a pilgrimage down the line of spectators. Closely on its heels followed a minute orange beacon, hung in smoke, making its way from hand to hand. "What's going on here?" he asked. "Well...." His roommate paused. "They're passing the time until the halftime show." "But what about the game?" "What about...
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