Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private bash afterwards, Mailer could not originally relax. Thirsting for his base hit, he called surviving Niemans around his feet to attempt his speech anew. By now, however, fortyodd children of the grape clamored and whooped in their private adventures. The Nieman Class Lover had eyes only for a stunning visitor from the Mailer entourage, The Class Drunk stood in the kitchen loudly quoting Invictus, the wife of a magazine editor complained that we had chuckled rather than fought when Mailer called us whores. Our guest soon abandoned oratory for a night of innocent reveling- including vigorous bouts of thumb...
...begun test-marketing three sweet-tasting concoctions of their own: Pitts burgh Brewing's lemon-lime-flavored Hop 'n Gator; Lone Star Brewing's low-calorie Lime Lager; and National Brewing's Malt Duck, a combination of beer, alcohol and an unfermented concentrate of red grape with twice the alcoholic content of ordinary beer. The brewers say only that, whatever the reason, a lot of young people seem to like sweeter drinks -and the manufacturers are trying to win those youngsters. "We are dealing with a Pepsi generation grown up," says Bud Allen, National Brewing...
...verbs, sentence structure, questions and conceptions, the last being the cognitive ability to grasp not only the root meaning of the word-symbols but their application in totally unfamiliar contexts. Having taught her to associate the color red with apple and the color green with grape, says Premack, "we then tested her comprehension of the conception 'color of.' " He was not surprised when Sarah demonstrated her ability to assign the characteristic "color of" to totally unfamiliar objects: that the redness of an apple, for instance, could also be found-and recognized by her -in a persimmon...
...Voice for Hands. The growers had not accepted the prospect of unionization gladly, but the success of the grape strike convinced them of its inevitability. It was then that salad-bowl farmers, who produce nearly 90% of the nation's lettuce during the summer months, decided to bargain with a union of their choosing. That was, understandably, not the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. One of the valley's largest growers expressed its antipathy: "The Chavez movement is 90% religion and civil rights and 10% trade union." When the Teamsters reneged on the agreement, the farmers refused...
Over the weekend, Chavez won a contract with the biggest grower in the valley, Inter-Harvest Inc., which is connected with the giant United Fruit. Worried that a boycott of United Fruit bananas might replace the celebrated grape boycott, Inter-Harvest agreed to wages well above the Teamsters demands and gave field hands a voice in the use of pesticides and union jurisdiction over foremen. While U.F.W.O.C. leaders called the contract "a shot in the arm," the Inter-Harvest contract angered the remaining growers, some of whom were letting acres of vegetables rot. Yet the Salinas Valley vegetable growers lost...