Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defect in that Sillitoe's automata of the sub-world are moved to explain themselves in terms of those heavily bearded bores Marx and Freud. An unctuous homiletic tone slops over into the hard-case dialogue as Sillitoe labors to make clear that the allright blokes are pro-Corn and the real rozzers are Tory types...
Knock on the Door. After the pictures, it was time to head for the dining room, where Cook Zephyr Wright waited with a holiday meal featuring turkey and corn-bread stuffing and sweet potato pie topped with marshmallows. But hold on there. "Come in and see our house," said the President to the reporters. "It'll just take a minute." Lady Bird looked pained. "Honey," she said in wifely tones, "I promise I'll give all these folks a wonderful tour when they come for the barbecue on Friday." Johnson hugged her, whispered something. "Whatever you say, honey...
...what a Bolivian civil servant or factory worker makes. Two years ago, when a market woman applied for a U.S. visa in La Paz, she was asked about her financial security and produced $20,000 in U.S. greenbacks. What do they do with their earnings? They spend them on corn liquor or such local variations as Colombia's aguardiente, for radios, sewing machines or even a truck. Some women invest their savings in real estate; many yearn to send their offspring to school so that an illiterate mother can take pride in her well-educated children...
Thanks to greater use of fertilizer, in combination with better seeds and pesticides, an acre that yielded 46 bu. of corn in the 1950s is now good for 64 bu. To demonstrate their axiom that $1 worth of fertilizer adds $3 in crop value, salesmen like to plant test plots along heavily trafficked highways in farm areas. Says Marketing Director J. P. Ekberg of Olin Mathieson, which operates the world's biggest fertilizer plant just outside Houston: "When the corn is twice as high as the corn growing next to it by the Fourth of July, people can easily...
Fans of Gilbert and Sullivan on no account will want to miss seeing the G & S Players' production of The Gondoliers, or the King of Barataria, but they may come away from it slightly puzzled. The operetta abounds in happy lyrics and exquisite corn. Brilliant costuming and scenery set the stage for some moments of first rate singing and acting. Yet because a variety of things are done standardly, a handful of performers, rather than the whole production, make the evening outstanding...