Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the milpas are very rocky, with white stones everywhere in the black earth. The Indians hoe around the rocks and around the corn, deft and sure in upturning the green, prolific weeds within a fraction of an inch of the corn shoots--never uprooting the corn, never cutting through the bean plants or squash vines they grow with the corn...
...English four-o'clock tea: Zinacanteco nine-o'clock pozol. Sitting at the edge of the cornfield under the shade of an oak, the Indians wash their hands meticulously and rinse out their mouths with water. The men would then take out their pozol, a yellow ball of corn mash the shape of a pineapple, wrapped in green cornhusks. Each of us took a handful of the cold pozol and put it in our bowls, adding water and stirring it with the brown water. If it was not too many days old, it was not too sour. The Indians carefully...
Back to work. We leaned for a while on our hoes, then began again, working as the sun rose higher, slowly hoeing down the mountains of Middle America. We stopped at high noon, to eat again: cold beans, perhaps, and koshosh--toasted and hardened tortillas, corn hardtack, the unspoilable staple the Indians take on all trips...
...darkness fell, the Indians sat over the oak fire and talked of Zinacantan politics, of weather and witchcraft, sickness and crops. At the center of the world things are fairly simple, after all; and it gave me a good feeling. There were only the elements, the earth, the corn, the fire, the night; and out of them a few men, asking few questions, trying to take a living, their old way of life. Will the Lord of the Earth send rain? they ask. If not, people will starve, even the people in the cities. Then they lie down on their...
Kennedy's program set out to grapple with the fact that U.S. farmers constantly overproduce feed grains-particularly corn-thereby causing prices to fall and Government surplus stockpiles to bulge. To induce the farmer to grow less, the program bribed him with subsidies: for cutting his normal acreage of corn or grain sorghums by 20%, the Government paid him 50% of the value of the forgone crop. This payment was made either in cash or in the form of grain taken from the surplus stockpiles, which the farmer could then sell or feed to his stock...