Word: cornelis
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...subjects on which he fancies himself an expert, none is closer to Nikita Khrushchev's heart than corn. He is full of it. On the last lap of his ten-day state visit to Poland (TIME, July 27), before flying home to Moscow and Richard Nixon, Khrushchev tore up his official itinerary. Instead of a visit to a Poznan factory where the Polish rebellion against Communist rule began in June 1956, Khrushchev insisted on making an impromptu inspection of one of Poland's corn-growing cooperative farms. As Khrushchev and Polish Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka climbed out of their...
...music man is the music he makes; what he does with the rest of his life is sometimes too dull for words or too rich for the censor. And since good music is seldom enough to make up for a bad story, the smart moviemaker tries to strengthen his corn section with a couple of side men. In this case, the added attractions are Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who have a ball and save the show...
...Berrien County, Ga.. a moonshiners' ancient auto, capable of making a 147-m.p.h. getaway with a load of 200 gallons of corn liquor, was bought at auction by County Sheriff Walter Gaskins, who will use it to chase moonshiners...
...After an 80-m.p.h. drive to the plantation of a friend, Long suffered what doctors called "slight heart failure," but recovered sufficiently to wolf a hearty dinner of roast beef, chicken and dumplings, corn, black-eyed peas, salad, beer, buttermilk and coffee. ¶ Raging at the wholesale desertion of his followers ("They're takin' a runout powder!"), Long began firing dozens of the unfaithful with the speed of a Cuban revolutionary tribunal. His worries increased when five other candidates, led by New Orleans' able Mayor deLesseps Morrison, announced their willingness to run for Governor against him. Meanwhile...
...possibility of retreat. "This unlucky circumstance," Rogers recorded laconically, "put us in some consternation." But the Rangers pushed on, slogged for nine straight days through a vast spruce bog. Sacking the Indian town was comparatively easy, but the journey back to Crown Point was harrowing. The corn supply quickly ran out, and the Rangers, split into small hunting parties, were easy prey to the aroused Indians. At one point, faint with hunger, a detachment of Rangers found the bodies of comrades butchered by the Indians, and ate them raw. Rogers, as usual, survived (49 others died) and commented simply...