Word: vines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clerk-typist" and thought no more about him. Then last fortnight Shult's old professor, Geneticist Carl C. Lindegren, let out a blast. The private, said the professor, "is the outstanding mathematical genius I have encountered in 30 years," and the Army was "letting him wither on the vine...
Next, as the unsavory newspaper peddler at Hollywood and Vine remarked: "Nobody's them Angels." The Angels are the displaced persons in the westward movement. Last year's Pacific Coast League champs, they had a couple of crowd-drawers--a line-up averaging .304, a pitching staff with four 15-game winners, and a roly-poly slugger named Bilko who swatted 56 homeruns...
...story are snobbish, overbred, illness and accident-prone, genteelly displaced persons in a Japan that is flexing its muscles for World War II. By strictly observed seniority rights, Yukiko−who at 30 is the oldest unmarried sister−must find a husband first. But Yukiko is a clinging vine who almost prefers clinging to her family. She is adept at flower-arranging, but she gets completely flustered if she has to answer the telephone. Through go-betweens, Sachiko, the No. 2 sister, sets up miai after miai−get-acquainted sessions with prospective suitors and their families. But Yukiko...
...difficult time believing that a whole series of events happened in Hungary which their government had deliberately chosen to hide from them. But they listened with avid interest to every word. And from all the later reports and reactions, I gathered that they passed the word along the grape-vine...
Dunned by his creditors, on probation for cutting classes, living beyond his mother's means (his father had died in 1920), Cozzens got a leave of absence at the end of his sophomore year, and never went back to Harvard's vine leaves. The school rewarded its prodigal son with an honorary Litt. D. degree in 1952 (Cozzens says he accepted it only to please his mother, who died a few months later). Nowadays, on rare trips to New York, he likes to lunch at the Harvard Club, "where everybody acts morose and nobody looks at anybody...