Word: vine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murals are painted in the artists' own terms-those of a Negro people with a hungry, vine-choked, voodoo-ridden way of life. Their work is not purely religious because no art ever is. The radiance of God and the saints can be pictured only through the dark windows of human experience...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Margaret Phillips, Faith Brook in Dead on the Vine...
...Bordeaux winegrowers journeyed to London's Parliament Square, where they sprinkled some rich Bordeaux earth around the king's statue with the words, "In your blood were all the riches of our land; in your terrifying vitality there flashed the love of life that comes ... from our vine-covered hillsides...
Syntex uses a vegetable raw material, cabeza de negro (niggerhead), a Mexican wild vine whose lumpy, woody root contains a soapy-feeling compound called sapogenin. In its raw state sapogenin is not a hormone, but its molecule contains the basic steroid nucleus.*This can be separated by a simple process and built up chemically into any number of hormonelike compounds...
Boldest critic was a tall, husky, 35-year-old wartime partisan fighter named Branko Copic, a philosophy student turned writer. Copic, in a series of shattering satires that began last August in the Communist literary organ Knjizevne No-vine (Literary Gazette), scored direct hits on the most unpopular people of Yugoslavia-the Communist bureaucrats and their wives who lived off what fat there was in the hungry land. Copic's articles were reinforced by the cartoons of a popular artist who calls himself "Dzumhur" (Jester...