Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milky Way. In Chicago, Mrs. Catherine Copulos celebrated her 102nd birthday, announced that she had quit drinking a daily glass of port wine, now takes a glass of milk...
...cheerful note from Tripoli. Here, in a city which, except for some bombed buildings, looks untouched by war, he sat down on a restaurant balcony to a dinner of antipasto, spaghetti with meat sauce, steak and fruit tart. He washed it down with a bottle of sweet, heady wine while the organ-grinder played 0 Sole Mio on the sidewalk below...
...today my friends captured a Todt organization headquarters and found cognac and wine. So for lunch there were shell eggs (opposite: dried) and cognac with a stew compounded of vegetables and D rations, alt this sitting in an apple orchard in full bloom. It would be lovely if you could ignore the shelling, the dirt, the burning fatigue...
...around you, shutters banging in the breeze. By this time it was getting very hot and stuffy in the tank so we climbed out and took a smoke, cleaned the brass up in the tank and stuff. Then one of the Frenchmen comes up with a bottle of wine and we all had a smoke and drank the bottle of wine. A shell lands behind the tank and sort of makes us mad so we get back in and start shooting away again. And the people just standing there on the sidewalk. . . . P.S. My company has the credit for taking...
Boiled Chicken Politics. The King could be controlled through his passion for boiled chicken; Alberoni sent him one every day. The Queen was both gluttonous and fussy. For her Alberoni imported Italian cheese, wine, ravioli, truffles and gooseberries (he insisted to the Duke of Parma that they were vital to the security of Italy). No matter how busy he might be with domestic and foreign affairs, the culinary Cardinal never failed to dash to the royal palace at mealtimes to cook the Queen her favorite dishes. If she did not see eye to eye with him on policy, Alberoni would...