Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another dark night Lieut. Ralph Brown led a patrol of six men with thermite grenades and wine bottles of gasoline to burn the fortified town jail. They turned the structure into a roaring inferno, but by morning the blaze had burned out, the stone walls were still standing, the Germans were back again...
...Wine & Cake. There were rare intervals of crazy humor. Lieut. Vincent Kelley took a group into one building, killed two Germans and found a bottle of German Army issue champagne. The Germans at once counterattacked with 75 men and chased the small band of Americans away. "It couldn't have been the house they wanted," Kelley solemnly observed. "It wasn't worth a damn any more. They must have been sore about losing that champagne...
Submarines themselves are now equipped with heavier anti-aircraft guns to protect them from the patrol planes, which the men mortally hate & fear. They carry medical officers, have new-model rubber escape boats. Like U.S. subs, they stock the best food their country can provide- chicken, wine, oranges, real butter, good meat...
...hitherto had not disturbed Monte Carlo. New-rich Germans arrived to spend the proceeds of the loot of France. Collaborationists and refugees with more money than respectability swarmed in. Prices soared. The average price of a meal in 1942, was $24. Wine and liquors easily added another $100 to the bill. British whiskey and gin were $40 a bottle. Good brands of British cigarets were $22 for 50. Food was plentiful and good for those who had the price. The Germans ordered an end of that, too, demanded rationing for neutral Monagasoues. The Government of Prince Louis II acceded...
...been the child-mother who bore him four sons, suffered his youthful, jealous rages, stayed behind when he journeyed to London schooling. She had been the gentle, illiterate, aging woman who became his "sister" and lesser disciple, shed her high caste, mingled with untouchables, picketed toddy (palm wine) shops, urged India's fettered women to join "the struggle" for India's freedom. Once she had said that she was happiest in jail, where she held her fasting husband's cup, rubbed his hands, fanned away the insects...