Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's airport in George Marshall's luxurious Constellation, not only President Truman but Vice President Barkley and the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Interior and Agriculture were there to greet him. That evening, Harry Truman gave a state dinner (trout, squab and four kinds of wine) attended by some 50 top Washingtonians at the Hotel Carlton. Next evening, Dean Acheson gave another black-tie banquet for Galo Plaza; the guests included a lot of the faces the Ecuadorian had seen the night before. Afterward, the visitor, who had no work to do, bade good night to protocol...
Bitterly, the great actor booms out his own prescription: "No women, no tobacco, no alcohol . . . not too much work." But once out of the doctor's office, he hurries to souse himself in cheap red wine, then makes love to his wife's redheaded chambermaid...
...faded and re-flared between odd-and even-numbered classes. In the struggle for possession of her comely 300 pounds, Sabrina wound up in some odd spots: hidden away in the depths of a West Virginia coal mine, in the basement of a sausage factory, a bank vault, various wine cellars and wells. One resourceful student once claimed her on a forged express bill, sent her off to Europe on a luxury liner...
...recommendation for the job was his enormous brute strength. He was accustomed to amuse his soldiers by crumbling stones in his hand, and he could break a horse's leg with his heel. He was 8 ½ feet tall, and his regular diet included nearly 8 gallons of wine and 40 Ibs. of meat...
...ledge-walker was a teen-age boy in a wine red shirt and khaki pants. He dropped his jacket. The crowd rumbled as it fell. "Jump!" bawled a voice from the street. The figure swayed out, then shrank back, arms reaching toward windows on either side. New cries arose: "C'mon! Jump! Get the show on the road...