Word: wined
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard students picketed the Harvard Provision Co. because it sold several kinds of non-union wine, and sporadic demonstrations broke...
...When gas was selling at $1 a gal. two summers ago, we didn't make Strom Thurmond pretend to hear people testify about that. We were happy, running through gasoline-spewing sprinklers and drinking gasoline wine in a gasoline haze. And like the ant in the fable about the ant and the bug that wasn't an ant, we should have been saving. As I learned the hard way, though, saving hundreds of gallons of gas in those little red plastic containers in your parents' garage isn't the safest way to launch your investing career...
When gas was selling at $1 a gal. two summers ago, we didn't make Strom Thurmond pretend to hear people testify about that. We were happy, running through gasoline-spewing sprinklers and drinking gasoline wine in a gasoline haze. And like the ant in the fable about the ant and the bug that wasn't an ant, we should have been saving. As I learned the hard way, though, saving hundreds of gallons of gas in those little red plastic containers in your parents' garage isn't the safest way to launch your investing career...
Clearly, this woman could use some help. I recognized this and yet, I did not act. A feeling of utter futility consumed me. Nonetheless, what would I say? “Why do you feel the need to chug white wine?” What could I have done? What would you have done? Social convention does not enthusiastically condone the random intervention that this would require. Do I have the right to intervene? If I feel as if she is abusing herself, I imagine that I have an obligation to speak up. Does it make a difference that...
...ideal world, perhaps I would humbly walk over to her and ask her how she is. I noticed that you were drinking quite a bit of the wine and I wanted to know if you would like to talk about that. She would say “sure” and we would sit down on the red sofa in the gallery and get to the heart of her alcoholism. She would cry and have an epiphany, realizing that white wine is not the solution to her frustrations. I would walk her out, feeling as if I had done...