Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Homely, pock-marked little Pedro Aguirre Cerda won his nickname Don Tinto from the tinto (red wine) squeezed from his prosperous vineyards. Friends of the rotos (ragged ones), his Popular Front took control of Chile away from the other haciendados and big businessmen two years ago, made rich Don Tinto President. Last week Chile's rotos showed their approval, voted his man, Aurelio Cruzat, to victory in a Senatorial by-election...
Prince Saionji's death meant much to Japan because extremists were afraid of him. Powerfully representing ancient as well as modernized Japan, his influence kept in check such passionate young revolutionaries as Colonel Hashimoto. He was a lover of ceremonial silks, of austere rituals of tea and wine. He had a nightingale for a pet and he tended pots of orchids with his own hands. He woke each day to contemplate an ancient plum tree silhouetted against the white paper shoji-screen. of his bedroom. He represented also the West: constitution-maker, reader of French philosophy, always abreast...
...prize fight, and beneath little Greece's jubilation lay some grim facts. Greece faced woeful shortages of almost everything that it takes to fight a war. She lacked meat, wheat, oil, coal, sugar. Her chief sources of income-shipping and tourists-were no more. Her best customer of wine, olive oil and tobacco was Germany. Only Turkey and Great Britain can help her, and the latter has its hands full helping itself...
...Paris, a French boxer just out of the Army battled ten roaring rounds to a draw. Purse: 100 francs ($1), 50 litres of red wine, a bouquet of violets, a sack of potatoes...
...wife" in the offices of the Falangist general; the conversation on "three ways to get a woman" in the plane; the idyllic night in the woods of Compiegne; and the contrast as war and day break over the forest--these are the delicious drops in a goblet of directorial wine. It is a picture with a mood--and only the martial music of the final few moments mars the perfection of the whole...