Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days and would like to renew the acquaintanceship, the paratroopers gave her apples and cookies, sent her off to bring back her people. That night Sergeant Chef Guy Pinceau, who had jumped with his pet poodle stuffed in his leg bag, served a dinner of beefsteak, peas and condensed wine to 2,000 paratroopers in Hoa Binh. It had been the biggest drop ever in Indo-China, and another handsome victory for General de Lattre...
...Medical Journal, but hangovers of old-fashioned Puritanism. "In Shakespeare's time," editorializes the Journal, "there were Puritans who condemned drinking out-and-out, and Falstaff is eloquently scornful of them: 'Nor a man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine...
Carrie Nation once appeared and pleaded that wine jelly be dropped from the menu. Students promptly threw off her bonnet, and she was carried off on their shoulders, screaming that "everyone at Harvard is a hellion...
...Rico, current male lead in South Pacific, Mrs. Rico and Mrs. Bessie Buchanan, an old friend of Miss Baker's) had sat down in the Cub Room, where they were served a round of drinks. Then Miss Baker ordered a crabmeat cocktail, a steak and a bottle of wine. One hour later, according to friends, nothing had been served, and the waiters were playing a rotary defense. Josephine, who has made something of a specialty of creating incidents since her return to the U.S. last spring, reacted with practiced dispatch. She stormed into the night to find Walter White...
...cold business. Apton cites case after case (but without mentioning names), e.g., actresses who were able to go on playing youthful roles after face lifting, while others of the same age, with unlifted faces, got only middle-aged parts or none at all; a pediatrician who had a port-wine birthmark removed from his face because it scared the kiddies; a rabbit-eared radio announcer who had to have an operation to get a job on television...