Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glass of Wine. Again & again they returned to the terrible effect the war had had on Russia, and told how nobody wanted another war. "So much ruin, so much bloodshed, so much to be done again," said the young veteran, "and our reconstruction goes so very slowly...
...almost shaking off his fur cap in his vehemence, summed up their feelings. He said: "The heads of our Governments would better solve the problems if they sat down at a table over a glass of wine." Then he quoted an old Russian saying: "Bez butylki ne razberesh" (You can't solve anything without a bottle...
...Paris, everyone from cab drivers to nightclub operators exchanged dollars at the black-market rate. He found Parisian food mostly good, cheap in second-class restaurants in terms of the black-market exchange. Sample supper menu: vegetable soup (watery); green salad (wonderful); cheese omelet (out of this world); white wine, small coffee, patisserie. Cost for two: $2.50. The hotel bill for four days was 3,003 francs ($13 black market...
...routine training flight. On a sunny morning this week, the sleek T.W.A. Constellation, Star of Athens, swung low over the Brandy wine light, skimmed north up Delaware Bay. The lighthouse-keeper heard a jarring explosion, then two more. An enormous pillar of smoke shot up from the pool of gasoline flames on the water. By the time fishing boats and the Coast Guard reached the scene, all that was left of the Constellation and its four-man crew were some floating wreckage, a few bits of burned flesh and charred clothing...
...acquires its parasite, where it lays its eggs, why it seems to have thrived only in one narrow area. Doctors have found no effective treatment for verruga. Natives burn animal dung and pungent eucalyptus leaves in their huts to keep out the sandfly. They also dose themselves with red wine and water in which corn silk has been boiled. Neither measure does much good. The natives appear to survive mainly because those who live through a mild form of verruga in childhood develop immunity...