Word: vines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas Jefferson, who knew well the wines of France and Italy, dreamed of growing great vintages in Virginia To no avail. European vines, planted by Italian workers at his estate near Charlottesville, soon succumbed to insects and disease. For almost two centuries it was considered impossible to raise in the East South or Midwest-anywhere save California-any vine but the American Vitis labmsca, whose fermented grapes have an acid, musky, "foxy" flavor...
Even more compelling, though, are the stories of those who have not yet shared the game fully--those who only dream. Some, like the Berkshire Brewers, a Double-A minor league club which, like all minor league clubs, is slowly withering on the vine of small-town America, might one day see the dream come true--but for now they play to what the Pope calls a private audience, with not enough fans in the two-bit stadium seats to fill a quorum at a PTA meeting. Others, like the 18 members of former Dodger Wally Moon's superb Arkansas...
...doesn't hit the second guy in the face." Another sure sign that his quarry is a criminal and not a hunter, according to Garrison, is whether the person has entered the high grass: "No one but someone on the run would go into that deep grass and vine...
...Cana account: "Jesus Christ never drank any fermented wine, neither did he ever make fermented wine. What Jesus did at the marriage of Cana was to make out of water the finest nonintoxicating wine that perhaps was ever made. The various combinations of the fruits of the vine can produce some delicious non-fermented drinks...
MAUVE GLOVES & MADMEN, CLUTTER & VINE...