Word: corning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counts, George gets high marks. Emlyn Williams' eminence is unquestioned; as a playwright, his hits have included The Corn Is Green and Night Must Fall, as an actor, he has scored international hits with his one-man performances of Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas (and he will soon take over from Paul Scofield the Broadway role of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons). This "early autobiography," as he ambivalently calls it, carries him no farther than age 21. But that handful of years makes a moving story-the precarious flowering of a brilliant talent...
Consonants Left Gasping. George's real awakening began half a year later, when he won a scholarship to Holywell County School. There he met Miss Sarah Grace Cooke, 33, the original of Miss Moffat in The Corn Is Green, and an inspired teacher who discerned the sharp and hungry intelligence in the small, whey-faced boy with dilapidated shoes...
...days, I lived on corn and dried milk that Americans sent us as a famine relief...
...your article on Poland [Feb. 23] you stated that that country's corn yield reached 449 bu. per acre in 1961. Such an astronomical figure must surely have made many a Midwestern farmer wince in utter astonishment...
...include doubling the output of farm machines, a tenfold boost in fertilizer production by 1980, and increased "Leninist incentives" (i.e., pay for peasants). Burying his seven-year-old decentralization program, Khrushchev put responsibility for agriculture on a vast central administration. With all the fervor of his old crusade for corn, he even plugged a brand-new party-line panacea: abandonment of Stalin's system of sowing grain fields to grass every few years.* Instead of allowing almost half the valuable land to lie fallow, Khrushchev decreed that farmers henceforth will rotate grain with peas, beans, sugar beets and other...