Word: corning
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...examined nor treated for psychiatric illness. There Shaw was put under the direction of guard Walter Farrow, 61, who seemed to get along well with his prisoner. Bobby Shaw remembers his assignment with some excitement. "I was peelin' potatoes. I was runnin' the machine, makin' French fries, scalloped potatoes. Corn had to be snatched off the cob. Lettuce and cabbage had to be cut." He remembers nothing else...
...gathering was called to protest black attacks on white farmers and the government's failure to increase the price of corn. It also provided a rousing springboard for the so-called Committee of Generals, who the next day formally launched the Afrikaner Volksfront, a bid to unite more than 20 political, cultural and worker groups. The aim, says General P.H. ("Tienie") Groenewald: to win an Afrikaner state containing roughly 16% of South African territory, if necessary by acts of civil disobedience or force of arms. Says Groenewald: "What we will contemplate . . . is to declare our independence and secede." Despite...
Practice proved brutal on Bobby's knees, but not nearly as brutal as the media attention. Though he had labored from age six in his father's tobacco, bean and corn fields, had served in Vietnam and had worked on car bodies and pipes for 23 years, he had never been through anything quite like the blitz he endured last month in New York City. "It just drained me. Interview and shoot. Interview and shoot. Interview and shoot," he says, looking dazed at the memory. He heard reporters making bets that he'd miss his big shot. "They kept saying...
Sure, if you are a popcorn nut, you know that some types of corn are great poppers and others aren't. But do you know why? Have you assessed the thermal diffusivity of the pericarp, the kernel's tough outer layer? Have you analyzed the starch content of the endosperm, the inner, meaty layer? Have you compared the ratios of expanded to original volumes of various kernels? If so, you would know that the pericarp in popcorn has more densely packed fiber than that of ordinary corn. You'd know that starch content is less important. You needn't bother...
...premeditating a murder. "No, gentlemen, this skull here holds no plans," the defense claims. "What you see here is a thing . . . to hold the handle of a plow, a thing to load your bales of cotton, a thing to dig your ditches, to chop your wood, to pull your corn." In effect, Jefferson is not condemned to die like a man but be destroyed like a beast. Worse still, he believes that he is no better than a dumb animal...