Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grapes, Gifts, Girls. Last year, when Captain Thornhill, then 73, thought to marry his cousin Cecily, it was Patience the butler who did the proposing and it was Patience who stood by as best man at the wedding. Over the years, in gratitude for such devotion, Thornhill showered his butler with gifts of clothes and money, even of a nine-room house completely furnished. Out of sight of the squire, Patience lived like something of a lord himself. When the daily grind of grape-pitting at the manor was over, Patience would slip away, clad in the best, and whisk...
...looked like a bad day for the big spin in "The Brickyard." Grey rain clouds scudded over Indianapolis; damp winds skittered across the infield as the Memorial Day 500-mile auto race got under way. But Wild Bill Vukovich, 36, the "Grape Picker" from Fresno, Calif., had no time to worry about weather. He kept his eyes on the track. A two-time winner in the 500, "Vuky" was hell-bent on pulling off an unprecedented three...
...whose face turned red last year when Wine Lover Adenauer could not tell France's lactophilous Premier Pierre Mendes-France how much milk cost in Germany). Lübke's present: a bottle of milk, a token unlikely to wean the Chancellor from the grape...
...smaller brand, "but will you have enough money left over to buy a new garage to fit it?" Some people cut sections out of their garage walls, let bumpers protrude. Complained a Chicago motorist: "My garage fits so close, it's like the skin on a grape...
...shoes and socks, chins himself on the edge of the Pilar's flying bridge, throws one leg up, and, favoring his sore back, slowly raises himself to the roof to take the set of controls. The Pilar glides trimly past Morro Castle. Hemingway delightedly sniffs the sea-grape-scented air and gestures to the whole ocean. "It's the last free place there...