Word: vineyarders
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Billy Graham is remarkably cheerful laboring in the Lord's vineyard, but he is not at peace. Like an exhausted man fighting to keep awake, he must constantly remind himself that in all the feverish adulation amid which he walks, pride is the Devil's best weapon against him. He fights and prays for humility. The team helps. "If the Lord will keep him anointed,'' says Grady Wilson. "I'll keep him humble.'' He needles Billy mercilessly, and practical jokes are standard operating procedure. One team member, noting that the usually hatless Graham...
...nationalization of the French railroads, coal mines, electrical industry and other such giants was an old story. But many Frenchmen were surprised at some other government activities. The book showed that the government manages music halls, theater-ticket agencies, a drugstore, a vineyard. It is the nation's biggest ship owner, banker, printer and publisher, sells most of France's phonograph records, runs most of the gambling houses. In all, by unofficial estimate, the government owns outright 167 companies, has an interest in 67 others. And it loses on some of them. On the railroads alone, the government...
...Rome decayed, Baiae (now Baia) became a scraggly village below a vineyard-covered slope with a few resistant ruins poking out of the soil. Antiquarians knew for centuries that fascinating things must lie under the vine roots, but there was little digging. The vineyard owners would not sell their land, until at last, under Mussolini, who would have appreciated the Roman Baiae, the vineyards were expropriated and turned over to the diggers...
...reputation as the "journalistic conscience of New England." But they do more than bring wrongdoers to the bar. By giving their readers a blend of New York Times-like coverage, combined with the reflective aura of Boston's Atlantic Monthly and the hominess of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette, they have become the best and most respected New England dailies...
...grounds suitable for his aged parents. Something nice and quiet, said the young man, adding: "Price means nothing to me." Impressed, the agent showed M. Riviere a large house, somewhat run-down -its porch sagged and its roof leaked-but basically sound and set in seven fine acres of vineyard and orchard. A working-class family named Dupuis with five children lived there rent-free...