Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class of government managers and engineers was blown from desks and dachas to the four corners of the Siberian steppes, Khrushchev roared off for his old corn-belt stamping grounds to deal with Soviet Russia's biggest worry: the farm problem...
...must plant potatoes in square clusters. You must grow cabbage as my grandmother did," he lectured cloth-capped peasants. He admitted that his plans for planting corn ("sausage on the stalk") had not panned out so well everywhere. "If you cannot catch the bird of paradise," he advised, "better take a wet hen." Bidding for the farm vote, he promised the collectivists lower taxes and an end to compulsory delivery to the state from their private plots, then crowed: "Within the next few years, we shall catch up with the U.S. in per-capita production of meat, milk and butter...
Unemployment Benefits. In La Follette, Tenn., after severe unemployment forced the Federal Government to declare his county a "distress area," Sheriff Willie Chapman and his men raided several moonshine stills, found that the yellow corn meal used to make the liquor had been distributed by the welfare office...
...opening day of Maryland's goose-hunting season, federal game wardens swooped down on an Eastern Shore passel of 15 hunters, discovered that the surrounding corn field was illegally baited. Among the gunners in the wardens' bag: Lieut. General Edward T. Williams, deputy chief of the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe. Va., and Major General Rinaldo Van Brunt, Second Army chief of staff at Fort Meade. Md. Maximum penalty (if the baiting rap can be hung on the generals): a $500 fine, six months in jail...
They discovered Central Park and all the usual corn, and were back in New Haven in time for last Saturday's badness. Disheartened by the game, the birds got drunk together, and decided to return to their chains. The owl gave herself up Saturday night, and Thresky, thoroughly demoralized, fluttered back to his lonesome prominence above Mt. Auburn...