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Across the level fields of Comanche County, as far as the eye could see, the wheat nodded under the Oklahoma sun. When a breeze stirred the golden grain swayed in long waves. A breeze was welcome; sweat, running down the back, made an itchy paste of the chaff blowing from the two self-propelled combines that were cutting and threshing the wheat on Farmer Wilbur Morrison's 400 acres...
...exorcise these evils, Dow Chemical Co. offers dinitro-ortho-secondarybutyl-phenol, which it calls Dowspray 66 Improved. Sprayed on the vines, it shrivels them to chaff. Potatoes, synthetically frosted, stop growing, toughen their skins. Diggers shuck them out of the ground unclogged by greenery...
...noon Frank Anderson called a halt. His shirt and overalls were mushy with sweat, dust and chaff. At the house plump, jolly Zula Anderson had everything on the table the minute the men finished at the back-porch sink-fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, tomatoes, beets, bread & butter, milk, iced...
Other soldiers investigated by Major Needles fought on in the hope of death, or believed in their own invulnerability, or feared their parents' and comrades' censure. The Major concluded that no screening process can positively separate mental wheat from chaff-and perhaps, from a military view, it's just as well...
...ounce bundle of six thousand such trips, called "Chaff" by the American, dropped from a plane and scattered in the air, gives an echo resembling that of three bombers on a radar scope. Large numbers of these small bundles scattered through the sky can effectively screen whole formations of bombers from enemy radar; similarly, the "Chaff" dropped by one plane can present the illusion of a mass raid where there is no raid...