Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost a hundred districts had been officially declared stricken. The staple summer crop, corn, had failed and the country faced famine. At best the harvest could be no bigger than half the 22 million bags needed...
...problem of socially harnessing nuclear energy is not different in kind from that presented by each technological advance in turn since the day when man first bound stone to stick to help him hew wood and grind corn and then realized it could also serve to bash his neighbor's brains...
Universal military training? No, sir! Boys of 18 and 19 should not be taken out of school; they are "the seed corn of the Republic and the leaders of tomorrow." Besides, "if you draft Negro boys into the army, give them three good meals a day, a good uniform and let them shoot craps and drink liquor around the barracks for a year, they won't be worth a tinker's damn thereafter...
...definitely poisonous to certain plants, e.g., squash, cucumbers and melons are killed or stunted by small doses. Tomatoes, corn, beans and rye are sometimes retarded...
...thing, though Billion Dollar Baby has the broadness of burlesque, it has the brightness only fitfully. Its verbal humor is too scant and too feeble. The luridness, at times, seems used for corn rather than comedy. The heroine-a predaceous, flinthearted little heel, a kind of sister to John O'Hara's Pal Joey-is too harshly drawn for this kind of jamboree, too poorly drawn to rise above it. Before the evening is over, the constant thump and slambang of Billion Dollar Baby becomes a little fatiguing...