Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bread & Wine. Most of the strike wave was in support of C.G.T.'s drive for a minimum wage of 7,000 francs ($59) a month. Many of the 1,300,000 Government employees (before the war there were 700,000) make less, and the raise would cost the French taxpayer 874 millions a year...
PRICES IN FRANCS Bread Milk Wine (1 kilo) (1 liter) (1 liter...
...story was on Manhattan front pages. (Not the tabloids, of course: there was no sex angle.) Waves of friends and reporters eddied through the Rodzinskis' Park Avenue apartment. They found the household as gaily confused as a Polish wedding party: the telephone and doorbell jingled merrily, Artur poured wine, vivacious Halina sliced Polish pastries...
...Russia) had left Hungary little wine, little wheat and certainly no peace. Last week, as it celebrated its first anniversary, the new Hungarian Republic was in the iron clasp of Russian economic control, and further squeezed by Russia's campaign to achieve political control as well. In charge of the campaign was a short, little-known secret police career man named Boris Osakin, who bore the inconspicuous title of Deputy to the Soviet Ambassador. From his desk at the Soviet Embassy in Budapest, half a dozen direct wires connect him with the leaders of Hungary's Communist Party...
...well-to-do members of the local Italian colony took the singers into their home, fed them spaghetti, baked veal and red wine. Tenor Galliano Masini, onetime member of New York's Metropolitan Opera Company, ran around the table, punctuating his protests with bars from Tosca and Carmen. Said he: "After Caruso's death they said I was the one. Tagliavini (see below') is a good tenor but light. I am disgusted. I want to sing." The Chicago Tribune's captious Critic Claudia Cassidy interviewed Basso Nicola Rossi Lemeni by telephone, had him sing...