Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shirt-Sleeve Mufti. Today irrigation pipes lace the fields around Kallia, as sprinklers shoot jets of fresh water high in the air. Massey-Ferguson cultivators dig furrows, and Kallia's first crop of yellow corn is sprouting. One acre has been set aside for a hydroponic plot. Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times...
Future student committee members will be elected by the biology concentrators each February. At last night's meeting, a motion to guarantee one committee seat for Cliffies initially met some opposition. "Radcliffe doesn't exist. We're all Harvard Men now," one Cliffie said. Another girl stopped smoking her corn-cobpipe long enough to nod her agreement but the motion carried anyway...
...also one of the few blancos, or white Bolivians, fluent in the Quechua Indian language. He is robust enough to dance all night with pretty girls, hearty enough to eat as many as four lunches a day of peasant rabbit stew and peppers accompanied by home made corn liquor. "I'm eleven pounds heavier than when I became President," Barrientos told TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia last week. "The only way the campesinos have of showing affection is to feed you. The only way to show appreciation is to eat the food...
...revolution is fought by flesh and blood men, not by saints, and every revolution ends with the creation of a new privileged class. I assure you that if I had not been a man able to take advantage of his breaks, I would still be scratching corn-rows in Michoacán, and just as my father was, I would be satisfied...
...backbones, hocks, stomach (hog maw) and other innards. Today, as 200 years ago, the true "stone soul" dish is chitterlings, pronounced "chitlins." These are the small intestines of a pig, boiled, marinated, then smothered with "Louisiana hot sauce," served with turnip or collard greens, black-eyed peas and hot corn bread. The meal is traditionally topped off with a slice of sweet-potato pie, a delicacy regarded as soulful even by Southern aristocrats...