Word: vines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late afternoon and eat them before dark the same day. Such is the advice to Victory Gardeners given by Dr. Mary Elizabeth Reid, of the U.S. Public Health Service and National Institute of Health, in the Journal of The New York Botanical Garden. Tests show that even on the vine vegetables may lose as much as 25% of their vitamins after the sun goes down...
...farmhouse, Mrs. Liebers had been busy every minute. She fed the chickens and did the afternoon milking, picked green apples for applesauce, dug and peeled enough potatoes for supper, shelled peas fresh from the vine. At 9:30, when the last of the twilight faded and the workers came in, she had the fourth meal of the day waiting...
...gathered to meet Manuel Avila Camacho over absinthe cocktails, lobster a la Newburg and a succulent melee of chicken, turkey and duck washed down with rare wines. Mexico's querulous intellectuals were being reconciled; the bile of the inkpot was being washed away in the blood of the vine. At the same time they were making the acquaintance, firsthand, of the President who, succeeding to the far-Left regime of Lazaro Cardenas, had led Mexico back to the middle of the road in a new era of "evolution...
...them against being overoptimistic: "Some of you pilgrims think when you're buried that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored boy, he ain't countin' on diggin' up a white feller...
Dinah, wary of celebrity hunters, declares: "They'll never turn me into a glamor girl." She prefers the armed forces, likes to pass the soldiers' hangout near the Vine Street Brown Derby, greeting soldiers (especially privates) with: "Hi ya, soldier! My name's Dinah. What's yours?" "Once I get them and they get me," she says, "we have a wonderful time." She has stopped her car to sing her head off to a one-man sentry in the desert...