Word: corn
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...precisely the two-thirds majority that was needed, the Oklahoma senate last week ousted State Supreme Court Justice Napoleon Bona parte Johnson, 74, on impeachment charges made by the state house of representatives (TIME, April 16). The case hinged on the testimony of former Justice Nelson S. Corn, 81, who was granted immunity after admitting that in 1957 he took a $150,000 bribe to mastermind the 6-2 reversal of a state tax claim against a shady investment company...
...million Brazilians live in misery, almost 80% of them illiterate, disease and hunger holding the average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought and ravaged by flood and yields one-fourth as much corn, one-fifth as much cotton as the average acre of U.S. farmland. "Our agriculture," said Ceará State Governor Virgílio Távora, "is just a bit more advanced than that of the Pharaohs...
...still doing the same stuff-talking to White Fang and Black Tooth, the meanest and nicest, respectively, dogs in the world, so huge that only their clawed paws are seen on camera. There was Pookie, a rubber-faced lion puppet, and, as always, corn as high as pie-in-the-eye. But once again it was a big click. Kids began strong-arming Mom into having dinner early or late, but not when Soup's on. And the result was that now 22% of his audience are adults...
...blocks away from our school we spent our work days with pick and shovel and bamboo carrying-poles. Later, we went to plant trees as part of a barricade against the fierce winds of North China, helped the people in a nearby village clear their fields of corn stalks, and finally spent a week in a commune, helping farmers dig a reservoir that would double as a fish-breeding pond...
...Corn's evidence, the State Supreme Court last December voted to disbar Justice Welch. It was a meaningless gesture since the court had previously held that a lawyer leaves the bar when he ascends the bench-an opinion that was written by Welch himself. If they are convicted on the bribery charges, however, Welch and Johnson face maximum sentences of ten years' imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. For allegedly lying about his part in the conspiracy, a federal grand jury has also slapped a perjury indictment against Lawyer Otto A. Cargill, 80, former mayor of Oklahoma City...