Word: vines
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...buds swelled to bursting on Hitler's vine of war, the saboteurs against the New Order were still nipping at the roots underground. Last week, from governments-in-exile and other anti-Axis sources, there were many reports of their slow, courageous work...
...socialist Sir Stafford, during his visit to a land whose 352,000,000 people are mostly dirt poor, had chosen instead to live a mile away in the vine-covered, chintzy bungalow of Sir Andrew Gourlay Clow, Communications Member of the Government of India...
...other hand, news is being smuggled out of occupied Europe with an extraordinary regularity and completeness, he declared, stating that New York was one of the best source for such grape-vine information...
...market day for the surrounding countryside, and the peasants left their vine trellised cottages and farms to come into town and exchange the spring produce. They cared little that the nearby hermitage of N. Sa. de La Antigua had formerly been the meeting place of the Parliament of Basque Senators. They knew of the ancient oak in its courtyard--time honored symbol of the free Basques--but they marveled not that Ferdinand and Isabella in 1476, and Charles the Fifth again in 1526, had sworn to uphold the Basque Fueros under its overspreading canopy...
...Brazilian snake Oxybelis acuminatus mimics a liana (vine) so closely that it is but a quarter-inch in diameter though four feet long. It is thus 160 times as long as its greatest width...