Word: vine
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...Bowron purged the cooperative cops, thus inviting torpedoes from all points East. There was opportunity for all in Los Angeles-the races, Hollywood, wartime black markets, herds of money-heavy aircraft workers. The newly arrived mobsters sighed happily, bought gabardine slacks and pastel sports shirts, rubbed shoulders peacefully at Vine Street bars, the baseball games and the Friday night fights at Hollywood Legion Stadium...
Bella Vista was named by an optimist. The outlook from the white cubical villa, surmounted by four grotesque chimneys, is gloomy. Ancient, vine-tangled trees surround it like careless sentinels. The great cast-iron gate is rusty...
What United wants to do with its stores was shown fortnight ago when the first Owl "Superstore" opened its doors on Hollywood's busiest corner, Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. It looked like a De Mille glorification of a drugstore-indirect lighting, air-conditioning and a 56-stool counter-fountain, with endless belt to bring food from the kitchen and carry back dirty dishes...
...gold is the grape on the vine...
...concentrate overly much on tasks of limited scope such as shipping food boxes to foreign students. Even greater is the temptation to follow the example of Noah who returned to the safety of dry lands after the deluge only to partake excessively of the fruit of the vine. But always there is the realization that the problems of primary importance, the problems which brought on the catastrophe of our time, are not yet being successfully faced...