Word: wining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wide ribbon of fertile Mediterranean littoral where most of its largely Moslem population lives. Pacified, colonized, civilized through 125 years, Northern Algeria is officially a part of metropolitan France, and sends its Deputies to the Paris Parliament. Its approximately one million European settlers produce enormous quantities of the same wine and wheat that Frenchmen already produce in surfeit at home. Result: it must be subsidized from home, to the tune of some $50 million a year...
...official uniform of a six-star admiral of the Nepalese navy, stood Elsa herself. "We're going to see Greece, and Greece is going to see us," she shouted as 50 cases of champagne were stowed away in the ship's hold. But, despite the wine, Admiral Elsa insisted, the Achilleus cruise was to be "entirely serious in tone. Oh, we will play a little bridge and do a little dancing-and Spyros Skouras has sent us 20 new movies to show. But everybody will have to be in bed by 12 and up at 8. There...
...what did Frankie do while the wine of fame was flowing free? He bought a $250,000 home in Holmsby Hills, then a place in Palm Springs, for $162,000. He gave away gold Dunhill lighters ($250 apiece) by the gross. He threw champagne parties day after day. And night after night, there were the women. When Frankie came back to his hotel he almost always found some mixed-up youngster hiding under his bed or in the closet; sometimes it was not a girl but a grown-up woman. One night a well-known society belle walked...
...Cabinet voted to increase its buying up of wine and distribute it in weekly rations of about a quart apiece to the country's "economically feeble," i.e., paupers, sick people over 60, everyone over 65. The Cabinet also recommended that the Defense Ministry increase by 50% the army's ration, now a pint of rough red pinard a day. In doing so, the government neatly canceled out former Premier Mendés-France's campaign to cut down on winebibbing among the soldiery. By Mendés-France's order, the serving of milk is obligatory...
...kissed me through a glass closed window /I ... tried to remember as the glass shattered / that this was freedom instead of death"; "the heart is a circle / shaped like a cross . . . / a mold of lava / a tender thing / a shriek in the pillow / a butterfly's wing"; "... a wine of palest color . . . / It tasted bitter as an herb used perhaps for poison / And yet I drank / believing that when I reached the bottom / it might be sweet...