Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheers would follow Allied victories all the way to Berlin. But most of the roses had been thrown. Most of the free wine had been drunk. Even before the night of Nazi totalitarianism had been rolled back over Germany, the morning after was dawning...
...magistrate came to meet him And to offer toasts of yellow wine...
...Helps. Almost half of France's newborn babies were underweight, and the child death rate had increased by 25%. Tuberculosis deaths were up 51%. The Germans had drained off dairy products, livestock (a quarter of France's cattle, a third of her draft animals), huge quantities of wine (for the Wehrmacht: 60,000 bottles of champagne daily-though the Germans, who did not know enough to specify the vintage years, did not get the best). Last week in towns where retreating Germans left dead horses on the street, the inhabitants eagerly butchered the carcasses...
...American soldier were to come into town with a $10 bill he might buy two packages of cigarets or a couple of bottles of wine and he would be broke...
...Scotland's prewar 158 million gallons in reserve, Ridley's Wine and Spirit Trade Circular noted, 30 millions had been drunk abroad, 28 millions drunk at home, 11 millions blitzed by enemy bombers, four millions lost by evaporation. Only 85 million gallons (all of it choice and matured) remain in bond. Warned Ridley's soberly...