Word: cornfield
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...indignations tend to play out quickly and he seems more at home in an easygoing, sentimental mood, as when he writes of his son: Up to the cornfield, old and curly...
...Announced for next week was a "Cornfield Conference" of Republicans at the farm of Homer E. Capehart, vice president of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. (musical instruments). Place: Washington, Ind. Theme: winning Midwestern seats in Congress (Republicans have but one out of Indiana's 14, for example). Keynoter: New York's Representative James W. Wadsworth. Expected attendance...
...have not violated any treaty or any law and if you will send your lawyer in and talk to our lawyers here, they can settle it much better than some of our cornfield lawyers, like me and you, Mr. Pearson...
...start. The Flapjack roared, reared its tail into flying position, bobbled the length of the field like an angry bumblebee across a windowpane. When it hit a barbed-wire fence at the field's end, the Flapjack flipped over, came to ignominious rest in a freshly fertilized cornfield...
...Unlike most religious Negroes, William Edmondson never quotes the Bible. "The oney time," said he last week, "as I tried to read the Bible against God's wishes all the leaves came out." He says that one day when he was 14 years old and working in a cornfield, the figure of God appeared on the east edge of a cloud and showed him a great flood destroying the world. After that he was careful to follow divine instructions...