Word: cornes
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...steel mills have slowed to part-time operation, a month's rice ration lasts barely three days, sugar is issued only four times a year, and housewives try to thicken watery gruel by adding grass. Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees. Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair. In Peking, when the first fish to arrive in weeks proved rotten...
...Corn soup...
...lived in the Back Bay area of Boston and who is now living in the "never-never" land of married student housing, I welcome Mrs. Jacobs' arguments with open arms. How 1 would love to once again dodge people, taxis and cigarette butts for a "corn beef on rye" in a cozy basement delicatessen. Until such a time I only pray that the city planners are sentenced to live in the bleak "hells" called housing projects...
They come wrapped in cellophane, frozen or dehydrated, under the generic label of "foods of convenience"-peas without pods, corn without cobs, potatoes without skins. What price convenience? Last week one amateur gourmet, who likes to cook himself, watched a housewife of his acquaintance brooding over the shelves at a Miami supermarket and launched into a Socratic dialogue: "How much do potatoes cost? About a nickel a pound. Right...
...Gordeyev) by Maxim Gorky, is a visual experience that roars across the screen with the rage and razmakh of a flash fire on the steppes. Unfortunately it is also a piece of Marxist propaganda that suggests Premier Khrushchev might profitably send some of his moviemakers to Siberia-to stimulate corn production...