Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though corn crops covered Yuque and Yunque for years, it was the patches of wild morning-glories growing there that piqued Professor Ellis. Since the flower grew nowhere else around, she took it as an indication that the soil beneath was different in some way. Her students attacked the spot, and soon struck a layer of adobe. As the surface dirt was removed, more and more walls appeared, revealing the remains of a 25-room pueblo...
Shows like Hazel, Margie and Mr. Ed (the corn-talking horse) are actually coming back next fall, and the new season will further reflect the old with such unforget table concentrations of dramatic power as Leave It to Beaver, My Three Sons and The Real McCoys. Even Car 54, Where Are you? has been granted a stay of execution, although no one has ever known where it really...
Despite its big-time business. State Farm glories in the corn-and-cows atmosphere into which it was born in 1922. Though it operates in 50 states and Canada, the company has never considered moving its headquarters out of Bloomington, and all but one of its twelve directors still live in surrounding McLean County. State Farm executives have strong family ties: Board Chairman Adlai H. Rust, 70, and President Edward B. Rust, 43, are father and son, and Vice President Herbert L. Mecherle is the son of Founder George Jacob Mecherle. After World War II, when State Farm decided...
...Corn. Mixing orchestra music, songs, plain talk, sentiment, shenanigans, commercials, and poems that would have embarrassed Edgar Guest. Breakfast Club is the salt of the air. The visiting audience is full of people who listen to McNeill every day without fail, and they feel no restraint about participating. One woman walked up to him during a show recently and hefted a likker pot toward him, drawling: "Ah brought you a small jug of corn from Alabama." "We got our own corn on this show," said...
...slave to Meredith Willson's Broadway hit musical. Indeed, at one point a theater spotlight is used to light up the hero and his girl, with the rest of the screen in darkness. The hero is Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a 1912 conman in the corn-belt town of River City, Iowa. Preston's tactic is to whip up enthusiasm in small towns for starting a brass band, sucker parents into buying the instruments and uniforms, and then skip out without teaching the young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical illiterate but a one-man school...