Word: vining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even with the score at 11-3 after the first period. Crimson pressure was unrelenting. Sophomore Suzanne Vine came in to forecheck brilliantly and had one scoring play washed away by the referee's whistle...
...corrupt reign of cement baron and political boss Tom Pendergast, when Kansas City thrived on a depression economy of gambling, prostitution, and bootleg booze. Ricker establishes early on the pointlessness of trying to recapture that milieu: Big Joe Turner sings "I was standing on the corner of 18th and Vine," and he shows us the barren parking lot that now occupies this intersection, once crowded with nightspots. He succeeds in capturing the unique camraderie that still exists among the men who made the Kansas City sound nearly 50 years...
...19th century American engraving entitled The Old Wine God and the New, a graybeard Bacchus passes a vine-wreathed staff to a wide-eyed Western stripling. The artist's message: the age-old mysteries and delectations of the grape are flourishing in California soil. It must have evoked a guffaw or two from Victorian clubmen with noses deep in the real stuff from...
That is quite an achievement, considering the troubles that the immigrant Vitis vinifera* has had surviving in North America. The European vine did not fare well in chilly Northeastern climes. In fact, making a potable domestic wine was quite possibly the only undertaking in which Thomas Jefferson ever admitted defeat. The most grievous blow of all was the Prohibition era, in which the wine industry died on the vine. It has not been helped since by many Americans' two-fisted addiction to beer and hard liquor or aversion to alcohol in any form (dry and blue laws...
...Pinots Noirs will be released this month, but should be put down for at least two years before they are uncorked. Sterling is probably the only winery in the world where visitors board an aerial tramway en route to the sampling room; they get an intoxicating view of the vine-dappled valley below and Mount St. Helena beyond...