Word: wining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, Stubbs says he found "an extraordinary number of wine bottles." most made of green hand-blown glass...
...deep trench by Harvard Hall, wearing a yellow hard hat, John N. Stubbs '80 is still busily filling shallow cardboard boxes with trash--mostly small white tubes and shards of broken glass and pottery. One box is nearly fled with large chunks of broken glass, the remains of wine bottles...
Because Stubbs has found no kitchen utensils in this trench, he believes the wine was consumed by students who lived in Harvard's old buildings...
WHILE THE YARD covers a wealth of artifacts. Williams warns that archeological excavations often raise more questions than answers. For example he says, it is easy--and appealing--to conclude that the hundred of wine bottles Stubbs has found were all used by students in a party of colossal proportion, it is impossible to tell weather the deposit is the result of one great Commencement bash" or a pile that grew over years...
...years, he says, listening to the talk and watching the action. A white, middle-class reader, from a neighborhood where people don't duck when they see a police car, has no business saying whether Price has got things right. But the book sounds right; it rings true. Cheap wine, the kind you drink on the front steps, is "stoop booze." That's information worth hanging out to hear. The plainclothes-police raiders who roust the drug dealers two or three times a night are "the Fury," from Plymouth Fury, the beat-up patrol car they drive. "Dicky check" -- genital...