Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the day man first sipped the liquid collecting around honey or fruit left too long in a warm place, alcohol has played an important role in his life. Early in history, wine became-and still is-an integral part of religious ceremonies. The Bible acknowledged the "wine that maketh glad the heart of man" (Psalms 104: 15), and Pasteur called it "the most healthful and hygienic of beverages." In the hectic modern world, hundreds of millions of people drink liquor, beer or wine for enjoyment, solace and tranquillity. Yet today, as it has throughout history, alcohol is also troubling...
...alcoholic tide has been pushed higher by the fast-selling, inexpensive pop wines, which disguise their alcoholic content with sweet fruit flavors. These wines make the transition from soda pop to alcohol just one easy step. "Kids seem to look on the stuff as a zippy, sophisticated soft drink," says Houston's Bruner Lee, education director for the Texas Council on Alcoholism. "But this 'kiddie stuff,' this pop wine, contains 9% alcohol-about twice as much as beer." After the pop wine phase is over, the kids often go on to much stronger drink...
...Thus a Scotch and water would pack the same punch as Scotch on the rocks or a Scotch and soda if all three were drunk at the same speed; drinking more slowly gives the system a chance to eliminate some of the alcohol. The mixing of different types-beer, wine, whisky and brandy, for instance-might make a drinker sick, but it would not make him any more drunk than the same alcoholic measure of just one of these drinks...
...Atlanta stockbroker, began his career as an alcoholic at 15 when he went camping with his brothers. One of the boys opened a bottle of wine, and Joe instantly discovered his weakness. "That night was it for me," he says. "I went looking for a drink in the morning, and I drank all the way through high school. I was in the grip of an insidious, progressive disease." Joe continued to drink through Harvard and the service, but when he went home again his parents sent him to a hospital for "aversion" therapy. "I stayed sober two or three months...
...years ago, Israelis were taking no chances that the Syrians would follow up the Yom Kippur War with a Passover war. Israeli forces were put on high alert. In line with what a military spokesman termed "a no-risk policy," grape juice was substituted for the obligatory Seder wine in front-line areas...