Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Verses & Wine. This feeling made a Utopian socialist of him. He influenced generations of obscure idealists throughout the world who read his News from Nowhere, a palimpsest of nonexistent felicities, as if it were a blueprint for the future. The illogic inherent in the notion that an infatuation with wimples, rood screens and the music of madrigals played on hautboys should give him title to prescribe for future generations seldom troubled Morris. If it had, he could not have led a life of such vigor and achievement...
...drawing on another table, sitting down to scratch out a few lines of verse or fable or jot down notes for a wallpaper design or a manifesto or a Homeric translation, then, tired at last, descending a staircase, perhaps of his own design, to bring up an armful of wine to entertain his friends at a boisterous dinner...
Wald concluded a 35-minute lecture and then announced that he and his family would leave for Stockholm Tuesday evening to accept his Nobel Prize in medicine. He then asked for "six beautiful girls" to help distribute wine and fresh bread "baked by two wonderful Greek ladies" to celebrate the occasion...
...other sister, played by Martha Bayles, complements the little conspiracy very well herself. She is preposterously large while her partner is preposterously small. They play against each other skillfully, whether they are interring a body in their cellar mortuary or pouring another glass of lethal elderberry wine...
...hour later, two hippies clambered to a porch outside the bathroom window and looked in. They saw Billy's body in the tub. His wrists had been slashed and a broken wine bottle thrust deep into his chest. Billy's mother, Carol Metherd, 24, sat silent on the puddled floor, her hands, T shirt and slacks soaked with blood. The two horrified hippies smashed their way into the room. Carol later curled on the floor in a fetal position; her only sign of life was the rolling of her eyes...