Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Full Corn. Many obscure masthead adages survive only out of deference to long-dead founders. Until recently, the Denver Post peppered the papers with a passel of Founder-Gambler Frederick Bonfils' hand-me-down maxims, including a standing head that ran over every police story: CRIME NEVER PAYS. One of the most enigmatic samples of U.S. newspaper wisdom comes from Mark 4:28 and runs above the Christian Science Monitor's lucid editorial page. It was adopted at the behest of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, who prescribed the original quote from the King James Version of the Bible...
...professors characterized the 22-year-old Makinen as "the most serious and hard-working young American we have seen in Berlin in a long time." Makinen spoke fluent German and Finnish (which he had learned from his family), took private lessons in Russian. Short, slight, with corn-silk blond hair cropped close, he was not a big hit with the girls at the university because, as one put it: "You always got the feeling that he would rather be alone...
...shattering roar; for a moment, some thought that there had been a nuclear explosion at the famed Argonne National Laboratory near by. But the noise was the death of Flight 529, as it crunched into the earth and skidded in flame for half a mile across a field of corn and soybeans. There was no time to escape; the crew of five and all 73 passengers were burned to death, in the most costly single-plane disaster of U.S. commercial aviation history...
...pack of 12-oz. bottles or cans), Red Letter contains fewer than 100 calories per 12 oz. (v. 150-170 in other beers). The reduction in calories results not so much from a slight drop in alcohol content, say the makers, as from the removal of rice and corn "adjuncts" and a new malt recipe. Calorie counters will welcome it, but many beer drinkers with a taste for body and flavor may skip dessert instead. CJ Automatic cow-washing machine that scrubs, rinses and massages a dairy cow in 4^ sec. Called "Cowash," the bovine bathhouse ($3,500 installed) promises...
Seldom had Belgrade seen more bustle and toil. Wrecking crews felled whole rows of shabby old tenements as if scything corn. Gangs labored round the clock to transform gaping foundations into spruce little parks. Everywhere, the police rounded up known drunks, idlers and beggars and sent them off to the countryside for the duration of the Conference of Unaligned Nations...