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Word: wining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is not one Germany. There are three. One (Bavaria) is the Germany of beer, a second (Prussia) is the Germany of schnapps and the third (the Rhineland) is the Germany of wine. The only people sober enough to rule all three in a sane, sensible manner are those from the wine country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man from the Wine Country | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...that effort, the old man from the wine country has pledged all his foxiness, all his sobriety, and all his faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man from the Wine Country | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Nights Off. Tough as they were, Mooney and Bird soon found that Skid Row was tougher. One time Mooney got violently ill having a sociable drink of beer and wine, and had to quit for the day. After one night in a bug-infested hotel, the two reporters gave up, slipped home of nights to their own beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Land of the Living Dead | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Brussels, Spaak's fellow Socialists pledged a diehard fight against the King's return. "We shall not pour water into our wine," growled burly Socialist Boss Max Buset. "We are now in the opposition and we will counterattack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Royal Deadlock | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...about two Kentucky Senators who tasted a leather-headed tack in a barrel of bourbon-TIME, July 25] is slightly reminiscent of an anecdote used about 400 years ago in Don Quixote. Two of Sancho Panza's cousins, renowned for sensitive taste buds, were enjoying a barrel of wine. Although both pronounced the liquor excellent, one cousin noticed a slight taste of leather, while the other objected to a taste of iron. The other imbibers, less discerning than Sancho's kinsmen, ridiculed the two. On emptying the cask, however, the cousins were proved correct, for in the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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