Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ready to Die." Transferred again because of his failing health. Mindszenty was now treated somewhat better, occasionally was allowed a bottle of wine. But his condition grew worse. "I was ready to die . . . but I decided again that I would pull all my strength together because I did not want to please them by dying." His prison physician ("A religious man, a good Protestant who did his best") diagnosed TB, insisted on "good...
...attain this goal, Perkins has ordered a brief restoration of gracious living in the fullest sense. The meal will feature wine, waitresses, table linen, and Lowell House china...
...that mysterious elite which inhabits all Communist cities there is the Rarytas Restaurant with soft lights and music, where dinner with wine costs 400 zlotys ($100 at the present exchange rate, a week's wage for a better-paid Pole). At the Kaskada, a smoke-filled vodka joint, there is Dixieland music, and at 2 a.m. the proprietor, according to a Warsaw magazine, "discreetly removes the drunks and lays them out in neat rows on the sidewalk." Gasoline is rationed, taxis hard to find, and there is a coal shortage...
...Testament miracles are quite different. Instead of earthquakes and lightning, the immobilizing of heavenly bodies and the annihilation of cities, Jesus changes water into wine, gives sight to the blind, feeds multitudes with an armful of fishes and loaves. Christ's miracles proceed, as it were, from a creative force revealing itself in life, rather than impinging on life to make men stare...
...nephews, Teddy is convinced he is Theodore Roosevelt, Jonathan is a psychopathic slaughterer, and Mortimer is a drama critic. The plot is a bit mad, and is far too intricately folded to describe. And it never ends. As the final curtain falls, a guest is raising his glass. "Elderberry wine is rare nowadays--I thought I'd had my last glass." "No," replies Aunt Martha, "Here...