Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atmosphere of 1924. That night the Generalissimo wined & dined Mao. Other guests included Ambassador Hurley, tactful Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, and round-faced General Chou Enlai, China's No. 2 Communist. Chiang and Mao toasted each other in yellow wine. The Communist leader quaffed his cup; the Generalissimo (a teetotaler) barely wet his lips. Said Chiang: "I hope we can have the cordial atmosphere...
...measurably lessened. So they decreed a special day of thanksgiving that all "might rejoyce together." Four men were sent to shoot waterfowl. Friendly Indians presented five deer, so for three days the Pilgrims gorged "on venison, roast duck, roast goose, clams and other shellfish ... all washed down with wine 'very sweete & stronge.' " Then they settled down to another winter of malnutrition...
...friends." Gorbatov was inclined to be a little stiff at first. Parks, a Southerner, soon charmed him. Gorbatov took the first drink of his life at the first meeting of the Kommandantur. Parks explained that he, too, was a nondrinker, that his doctor allowed him only a little white wine. A few hours later a Russian soldier appeared at Parks's house with a case of Rhine wine on his back. The next day it was a case of champagne, from Gorbatov's superior, General of the Army Vassily D. Sokolovsky...
Concerts and Nightclubs. There are a few nightclubs open, with bad entertainment and bad wine. Schools are open, but there are no books yet. Some moving-picture houses are running and there will be more when American, British and Russian films are available. It is possible to go to the theater, to art exhibitions and concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Excellent music and factual news bulletins are broadcast by Radio Berlin until one in the morning. There are four newspapers published in the Russian zone, two by the Russians, two by German political parties (Communists and Social Democrats). Next...
...three, the Iliad seemed to have the most immediate influence on TIME writing. Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "far-darting Apollo" were the parents of "jampacked bowl," "spade-bearded anthropologist" and many another space-saving phrase in TIME...