Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist Renner, who comes from a bourgeois family but has lived it down, Figl comes from peasant stock and tries to live up to it. He has a peasant's stubborn strength and stubborn limitations, along with the rural Austrian's strong belief in the efficacy of wine and prayer...
When Faustina Setti, 50-year-old frugal spinster, plunked down her savings (30,000 lire) on the promise that the poetess would find her a mate, Mona Leonarda proffered a glass of drugged wine, then felled the spinster with a hatchet, chopped her into nine pieces, and kept the change...
...April Princess Sophie went to Kronberg. But Captain Nash had returned to the U.S. and none of her successors knew anything about the priceless jewels. In the subcellar was nothing but a litter of wine bottles, and an empty hole. Princess Sophie then complained to the U.S. Army. Where were the jewels...
...Captain Kathleen B. Nash, 43, of Phoenix, Ariz.; Colonel J. W. Durant of Falls Church, Va., whom Captain Nash had just married; Major David F. Watson of Burlingame, Calif.; and a prowling corporal who had discovered the cache under bottle rows of rare old wine. Both the Durants were on terminal leave...
...years Psychiatrist Seliger has been hammering away at one basic concept: moderate drinking is impossible for an alcoholic; he can no more handle liquor than a diabetic can handle sugar. The idea that he can get away with a small glass of wine, or even a beer, is sheer folly...