Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wine of Seduction. But Unruh came back and softly spoke again...
...their hearts, what in the dust of ruins we still do not recognize: that every single one of us was very well able to choose for himself between right or wrong, justice or chaos. We must withstand the tempters-in whatever gilded cups they may be serving the red wine of seduction-when they cry from the right or from the left: 'Put your ballot in our box and your sins will be forgiven.' Let us at this moment and in this place give the order to our innermost hearts: 'Germans to the Front...
Pierian's members have not forgotten the "liquoring" activities of their predecessors, and every rehearsal is usually followed by a call of the traditional motto, "Sit Musa Lyrae Solers" and the still more traditional wine...
...brought one down like Leatherstocking's Killdeer ... it was a part of him chuckling at the other parts of him." But James was always getting into trouble with his cumbersome shyness. Once in Europe at a table d'hôte, he ordered a bottle of wine in order to get up nerve enough to talk to the lady beside him, then spilled it on her. She forgave him, and he ordered another bottle-and spilled that one on her also...
Their prayer started traditionally enough: "We come with fragrant flowers and sweet wine to pray. . . ." Then came the political snapper: "No matter how American imperialism exerts itself, the children of the Yellow Emperor will unite under the Chinese Communist Party and . . . thoroughly exterminate all of Chiang Kai-shek's gangsters." They wished Huang Ti's posterity "10,000 years, 1,000 autumns...