Word: cornfield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actually, the country music lover long ago abandoned the Southern holler for the middle-class suburbia of satellite dishes that politicians like to call the heartland. (Appropriately, the cornfield on the set of Hee Haw was recently transformed into a mall.) Republicans have understood this ever since Richard Nixon became the first President to visit the Grand Ole Opry in 1974. George Bush campaigned with country music stars Loretta Lynn and Peggy Sue, and made a pilgrimage to Nashville last year for the Country Music Association Awards. In many ways, the voters Bush was after are those who make...
Although I had sisters, I was isolated and lonely as a child. I wandered through wide expanses of prairies without any supervision. A farm boy took me into a cornfield when I was five and showed me his penis. A teenager molested me when I was eight. At 10, I felt the groping fingers of a man reaching up my leg in the theater where I was watching a movie. By the time I was 18, I was pregnant. In my 23rd year, a psychiatrist was putting his tongue deep into my mouth. My mother opened the door, and everybody...
...Mary Immaculate Catholic Grade School in Plainfield, was swept away from a group of teachers seeking safety in the school and was killed. Nine residents of the town of Crest Hill died $ when they were sucked from their three-story apartment complex and hurled 40 ft. away into a cornfield. In the tornado's swath across Joliet and neighboring small towns, at least 27 people died and more than 90 others were injured. Damage wrought by gusts powerful enough to toss dumpsters into trees was placed at more than $100 million...
...that I expected cows to be grazing outside the basketball arena, or that I envisioned the University of Nebraska to be several buildings in the middle of an endless cornfield. But I did think it would be different from Boston and Harvard. I just didn't know...
NATION: A heroic captain guides his crippled DC-10 to a crash landing in an Iowa cornfield. Miraculously, 186 survive...