Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caviar to Bonbons. At the main table Stalin sat with Churchill on his right and Harriman on his left. Wine, vodka and champagne washed down 26 courses, beginning with caviar and ending with bonbons. After 25 toasts, count was lost. Guests left as the morning sun struck the Kremlin's eastern battlements. Churchill who has dressed for dinner virtually every night of his adult life, wore his zippered overall "siren suit." What prompted him to wear it, what protests from Sawyers he overruled, he alone knew. Moscow wondered, decided finally that he was an "individualist...
With my line, stein, and wine I will dine...
...north-county rural chamber, amid frowning portraits of side-whiskered yeoman justices, eleven U.S. officers sat in judgment. Private Hammond testified nervously, lolling back cross-legged in an upholstered chair. He and the girl agreed they had picked each other up, had drunk beers and wine in pubs, had sought the privacy of a bomb shelter together, had kissed. The girl insisted she had screamed, slapped, scratched. But she admitted that when it was over she had wiped his face with his handkerchief...
...yellow-white silhouettes of Bambi and his mother fleeing from the hunters in the meadow-symbols of livid fear. When Bambi fights another buck for possession of Faline, the spring day darkens to an ominous brownish red, like drying blood. The battling bucks fight in luminous outline against a wine-dark background...
...Ethiopia, a brave old woman hides her sick anti-Fascist grandson, Pietro Spina, from the police. Recovered, he leaves her, joins his friends in another hideout. An informer forces them to move on. They do a little underground work. Pietro (he was also the hero of Bread and Wine, TIME, April 5, 1937) begins a romance, runs afoul of the authorities as the book ends...