Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hooked rare old wine from an Ulster castle cellar. Cost, in fines to the party of nine...
Drinking Team. Squat, ugly Itagaki and lean, handsome General Nishio made a perfect army team. They drank great quantities of sake together, Itagaki growing garrulous and gay, Nishio sour and taciturn on the gently powerful wine. They shared two of the controlling passions of the Japanese army: a hatred of Communists and a companion hatred of Japan's great capitalist families (the Mitsuis, Iwasakis, Sumitomos and Yasudas) on the twin grounds that their abuses fostered Communism and that they disputed the mastery of Japan with the army. When others laid an indiscreetly heavy hand upon the princes of money...
Peter the Athonite came first to Mount Athos in the 9th Century and lived there for 50 years, battling devils and beasts in a cave high above Homer's wine-dark sea. Then came Euthemius and Joseph, who sought eternal bliss by moving about on their hands and knees eating grass. All this was centuries after Xerxes' legions invaded Greece, and, of course, centuries before Nazi Panzer divisions...
...complete merger is achieved, the United Church will accept the Bible, the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, both the Presbyterian Confession of Faith and the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, baptism by water and in the name of the Trinity. Bread and wine (Presbyterians generally substitute grape juice) will be used in the celebration of Holy Communion. In governing the United Church, clergy and laity will have "coordinate powers" and an "equal voice" with bishops. Congregations will keep their present rights "unless and until the United Church may see fit to modify them...
Shades with patriotic names are shown: Russian, Australian and Pacific greens; British rose; Iceland, Gallant, Commando, Salute, Alaska, Independence and Overseas blues; American wine; Valor and Freedom reds; Atlantic sand; Gunpowder, Air, Bomber and Pursuit greys; Hawaiian lime; Canadian violet, Panama aqua, Chinese earth, India copper, Pan-American red and Coral...