grapevine

I had heard through the grapevine that a former math teacher named Dorothy Vaughan was running NACA’s highly regarded West Area computing unit, which was composed entirely of Colored women.

The parachutes floated down toward the coastline, not far from a cluster of makeshift tents, grapevines, fig trees and the outer edge of residential buildings.

Workers — many undocumented — fled, some going into the fields, hiding beneath grapevines or climbing up date palm trees.

Again, no one knows for sure, but the grapevine says that Mercedes are ahead.

The vase is a rare underglaze decorated with two squirrels hiding in a fruiting grapevine.