Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor Hans Strahl, stumbling innocent in blue smoke, who happened to be fair in line with the mouth of one of those cannons just when a charge of grape went off into his chest...As one ball of grape tore Hans's head off, others burst it into fragments and hanks of his dark hair were scattered wide. His entrails were scattered over the hillside, his left leg sundered into small lumps and his right thrown away to one side amongst Texans and strangers...
...trunks that stand 20 ft. tall. With 1 oz. of sinsemilla retailing for $250, and each stalk producing up to 32 oz. of pot, narcotics officials estimate the value of the California crop at a mind-blowing $1 billion-at least equal in value to the state's grape harvest...
Browsing through the produce section of a Kroger's store in Montgomery, W. Va., in June, Mirhadi Seyedashraf,, 28, a senior studying engineering at the West Virginia Institute of Technology, picked up one white seedless grape to test it. Very quickly, the young Iranian learned that the casual shopping habits of the market stalls in his own country were not those of suspicious American supermarkets...
...sports early in this century and spread, much too quickly, to virtually every other field of endeavor. A North Carolina youth, Lang Martin, holds the record for balancing golf balls vertically: he stacked up six of them. A Northeast Louisiana University student, Arden Chapman, caught in his mouth a grape thrown the longest distance-259ft. It is easy to understand the performer's urge to do the improbable, the difficult, the unique, the best. Claiming a record, any record, provides massage to the ego, varnish for the pride and a tic of celebrity. To hold a record...
...claimed to have exploded a newly completed copper mine in the Logar Valley and coal mines in Badakhshan. They have been putting pressure on farmers to cut back on spring planting. Partly for that reason, this year's grain crop will be only 75% of normal. When two grape growers pruned their vines, in violation of the rebels' orders, insurgents cut off the growers' ears...