Word: cornfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carroll, a corn-country town of about 9,000 inhabitants, were miffed, but some weren't. Glanting took time off from work, flew to Carroll, and with the enthusiastic help of the town's Chamber of Commerce, invested the "pantheon"-a small concrete structure in a cornfield-with a rusty barbecue grill, some worn-out tires, and pictures of such dull heroes as William Bendix, Hugh Beaumont (the father in Leave It to Beaver), Alan Hale Jr. (the skipper in Gilligan 's Island) and Walter Mondale...
...flight-plan perfect. He loaded his passengers on a craft designed for no more than 14 people, then flew 150 ft. above ground across Rumania and Hungary into Austria. After dodging high-tension wires, mountaintops, watchtowers, even barbed-wire fences, he made a bumpy landing in a rain-soaked cornfield, where Farmer Herbert Kaspar, 50, was working. Reported Kaspar: "For a while there was no sound, no movement. Finally a door opened, and the pilot got out. 'Austria?' he asked. I said, 'Ja, Austria.' He began smiling and sobbing...
...will want to continue throwing the hammer after this season remains a questionmark with Lenz: "It's hard for throwers, once out of college you're really on your own; there aren't coaches, facilities, or the financial support available. I'd probably have to go out to a cornfield somewhere to practice...
...years ago, farmers digging a well in a cornfield near the Yellow River in China's Shaanxi province came upon a pottery figure. Subsequent organized digging uncovered an amazing archaeological find: a magnificent buried army of life-sized terra cotta soldiers, rank on rank, some 7,000 strong-charioteers behind chariots and horses, mounted cavalrymen, kneeling archers, thousands of spearmen, each individually sculptured and fully detailed. Scholars determined that the terra cotta army was commissioned by Qin Shihuangdi, the first Emperor of China, as a guard for his tomb, which lies nearly a mile to the west...
...Cornfield added the assembly is considering possible open forums between students and administrators and a College-wide student center...