Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inches of tufted tail) that looks and leaps like a vest-pocket kangaroo. It is socially quite acceptable, has impeccable manners and irresistible charm. Its credentials are faultless: a desert species native to Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, it is clean, odorless and friendly, eats little (sunflower seeds, lettuce, corn), excretes less (three drops of urine a day), and never bites. Besides all this, it is happy, playful, loyal, fearless, curious, and can be taught tricks...
...play down." Or up. "I've always had a nightmare," he says. "I dream that one of my pictures has ended up in an art theater, and I wake up shaking." The audience he aims at is "honest adults." In short, it is himself. "We're selling corn," he says, "and I like corn...
...Colombians with money outside the country and not let them go until they bring back the $3 billion they have hidden abroad." His daughter Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 30, who ran for the Senate, turned up in the smaller towns to buy rice, yucca and corn at the marketplace. Then she set up a booth to resell them at a half or a third of the price, telling everyone, "This is how much it will cost after...
...year-old daughter of the python's proprietress, but family fealty prevails over private pleasure. With the town's aging sheriff, he rounds up a dozen rustic volunteers and marches off to the chase. Along the way, he gets disastrously drunk on a double swig of corn liquor, staggers off to get sober, and winds up delightedly in bed with the impotent old sheriff's mildly demented young wife...
...there he will have to compete hard, however, with Americans sent abroad in the new reorganizations. As recently as a decade ago, a U.S. executive dispatched overseas was as likely as not being sent to Siberia. Today such a post is a testing ground for reaching the top. Says Corn Products International Vice President Beverly W. Warner: "For us, Brussels opens the door to New York...