Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German hard work turned revival into boom. Last week Chancellor Adenauer, touring his busy nation, watched farmers getting in what looked like the biggest harvest since World War II. Franconia's hop fields promised all the beer Germans could drink; the sunny Moselle Valley flowed with good white wine. So fatly prosperous was the countryside that one small town ordered all its councilmen's chairs to be taken out and widened...
From the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from the Shannon to the Elbe, tractors, horse teams and the work-blackened fingers of peasant women were gathering in ,what looked like the biggest harvest since World War II. French hillsides teemed with blue and green grapes that sent the price of wine toppling. In Germany, cattle and hogs were plump and plentiful; in Scandinavia, furrows bulged with a splendid crop of potatoes. Everywhere, except in Switzerland, where the spring frosts were harsh, Western Europe's harvest waxed fat and mellow, promising its people that next winter none need starve...
...Herter can be informal when he wants to be. Last spring, in Brockton for an official appearance, he heard that a local Korean veteran had just gotten home. He insisted on dropping in unannounced, overwhelming the veteran and his wife, who woke up the kids, opened a bottle of wine and had a thoroughly pleasant time with their amiable visitor. When word of the devastating Worcester tornado (TIME, June 22) reached him, Herter was in his Boston apartment, in the midst of a weekly dinner with his legislative leaders. He immediately left the table and drove to the scene...
...French frontiers, customs officers waved motorists past without checking passports or luggage. In the coal fields, 173,000 miners downed tools. Southwestern winegrowers seized the opportunity to demonstrate against the government's refusal to buy up surplus wine. Led by their local mayors, 100,000 farmers blocked the highways with wine barrels, while priests tolled the church bells in ecclesiastical approval. There had been nothing quite like it since the Popular Front days...
Into Sunny Honeymoon Italy's Alberto Moravia pours the heady wine of love and politics. Married two days and honeymooning on Capri, an increasingly testy husband finds his Communist bride continually fending him off. Worse still, she shows an easy sense of comradeship with a fellow party worker they meet on the island. Just when the unhappy husband has decided that he and his wife are politically incompatible, a helpful bolt of summer lightning melts her lovingly in his arms...