Word: vining
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Julian was elected from the 136th Legislative district, a predominantly Negro area in Atlanta. Although it touches on the campus of Atlanta University and includes some of the middle-class residential neighborhood surrounding the school, the bulk of the 136th is a slum, known locally as Vine City. Visiting door-to-door, checking in at all the churches, bars, restaurants, and grocery stores, Julian discussed with his constituents his campaign issues: a $2 minimum wage law, a "liberalized urban renewal program," repeal of "right-to-work" laws, abolition of the death penalty and removal of all voter requirements except...
Many of the people in Vine City can't read or write, but they know that the streets in front of their shacks and one-story apartment houses are unpaved, that the schools their children go to aren't very good, and that it's hard to get jobs. Julian and the SNCC workers who campaigned for him spent hours giving the voters in the district some idea of how they could improve their lives through the vote...
...going south this vacation, but your old clothes will, if you give them to SNCC. Harvard and Radcliffe students will visit the dining halls tonight. The garments they collect will go into a truck headed for the Vine City Thrift Shop in Atlanta...
...inauguration, though he had supported Richard Nixon in the election. One thought he kept with him from the ill-fated 1948 campaign. "The American dream," he said then, "is a dream of the prophets of old-the dream of each man living in peace under his own vine and fig tree." It was a dream that Henry Wallace helped fulfill for every American who lives by the soil...
When George Baker first got into the God game back in 1907, the pantheon was packed. What with such ranking deities as Father Obey, Elijah of the Fiery Chariot, St. John the Vine, and Joe World, among many others, the heavenly host could hardly muster enough worshipers to go around. So George, an itinerant lawn mower and hedge clipper from Georgia, settled for an apprentice apostleship - a "God in the Sonship Degree" - with Father Jehovia, a former Pittsburgh steelworker who had a cult in Baltimore...