Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feasting & Toasting. The Russians took the four Yanks into their camp on the east bank, where they were beamed at, saluted, backslapped, plied with wine and German schnapps, sumptuously fed. Robertson arranged with the commander to send a delegation across the river to meet U.S. higher-ups. Colonel Charles M. Adams, commanding the 273rd, greeted the delegation at his regimental headquarters, then started out for the Russian camp at two o'clock in the morning, with a platoon in ten jeeps. When they arrived at six, there was more grinning, saluting, backslapping, feasting and toasting...
...news that the brandy was piled on the pier spread quickly. But the arrival of the French ship did not mark the resumption of a flourishing wine trade with France. The shipment had been four years en route to the U.S. Ready for shipment when trade with France was halted, the 8,504 cases were stored in Marseilles and left untouched by the Germans, who seemed to prefer champagne...
...microbes as minuscule chemical factories has been practiced, if not understood, since the first butter was churned, the first wine pressed, the first beer brewed. Spurred by advances in the field of biochemistry and the pressures of two wars, the employment of microbe labor has recently spread to a whole new field of chemical manufacture. Little is known of the actual metabolic process by which microbes work, but by careful control and endless experiment chemists and biologists, working together, have been able to set them hundreds of chemical tasks...
...origins, microbes are as temperamental as coloraturas. They are fussy about temperature, about food, and about the company they keep. Some like plenty of air, some like none, and some govern their behavior according to whether they get it or not. In an airless, quiet place, yeast will produce wine ; in air it just reproduces itself. To keep such un reliable workers healthy, happy, and productive is the responsibility of a growing new species of industrial scientist, the biological engineer. His job: to reproduce on a factory scale biological processes and conditions none too easy to control in a laboratory...
...Mussolini Ciano, widow of the Fascist foreign minister whom her father had had shot. With her was her latest lover, dandified Marchese Pucci, who had helped whisk her across the Swiss frontier when Mussolini fell. This strange pair descended periodically from their snug mountain chalet to dance, dine and wine...