Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, as the Dynamo's captain, Vassilis Kotzis, and two Communist soldiers assigned to guard his cargo of flour and tires were waiting to set sail in the harbor at Valona Athanassios turned up on board with a surprise-some rare white bread, cheese and good red wine. "From a cousin's wedding," he explained as he disappeared into the galley to prepare the feast...
Bound for Greece. As the captain and the guards sat waiting Athanassios laid out the bread and cheese and poured the wine. Then into three wine glasses, he slipped knockout drops. Sipping the wine a moment later, the captain remarked that it seemed excellent, but tasted somewhat of perfume. "Oh," said Athanassios, "some aroma from the wedding...
...Moral. In Limoges, France, after telling the court that his drunkenness had been encouraged by wine advertisements on matchboxes, Leon Seigneurin, 49, was nevertheless fined and jailed, and told by the judge: "Next time, get a lighter...
There is no doubt that St. James' was a clever scheme. The path he plied across the straits and through the narrow streets of Karik brought him a life of double marriage and pleasure. Maud in Gibraltar (pipe, slippers, and dumplings), Nita in Karik (wine, dancing, and midnight swims). He was, as one of his crew noted, a genius. But he was also, and this, too, is duly noted, a saint. If things ended badly, it was not his fault in trying to take too much, but in wanting too little. He wanted only a single full life, and when...
National out of some unproductive old lines. One such was the White Rock Corp., another was Italian Swiss Colony Wine Co. (TIME, April 27); a third was Henry H. Shufeldt & Co., which processed glace fruits as well as maraschino cherries and olives for dunking in National's liquor. Bierwirth sold them and all the rest, realizing $3,000,000 over their book value...