Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin. Communists burn the Koran and punish those who are caught reading it. They turn our mosques into theaters. They say that Islam is the product of a madman's raving, used by reactionaries to sanction the exploitation of the poor. They eat pork and drink wine -both forbidden by our religion. But nothing is forbidden to the demented followers of the blasphemous faith of Stalin...
...Wine from Lisbon. Pastoral, warm, gracious-so flowed life in Mt. Vernon. Washington overextended himself in land and fell in debt for a while. But he skillfully rotated his crops at Mt. Vernon, grew wheat when others were growing tobacco, and kept on prospering. He was able to ride in a coach & six and to lay down in his cellar pipes of fine Madeira and the "best Lisbon wine...
...What they finally got was a brash and breezy young man. Lynn White Jr. was a San Francisco minister's son who had studied at Union Theological Seminary and had taken his Ph.D. under Harvard's famed Medievalist Charles Homer Haskins. He was an expert on wine and cooking ("anything with garlic in it"), on 13th Century clocks and chivalry ("the culture of the horsy crowd"). And somewhere along the line, he had also become an unabashed expert on women's colleges...
...caught by the flowers, a relative squirts a mouthful of alcohol on the back of the child's neck, and the bruja claps a red cloth over its head. The treatment for clubfoot is simpler: the curandera rubs the afflicted foot with gourds filled with "magical" water containing wine and vinegar...
...London. Venice first-nighters could follow the plot with ease, even without much English. Young Tom Rakewell goes to London to spend his fortune with Mephistophelean Nick Shadow for a guide. For a year & a day, Shadow shows him a roaring good time with wine, women & song, then presents his bill...