Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ribbon highways trellis over swampy wastes, Freedomland opens next week. Billed as "the world's largest outdoor entertainment center," it rises out of a former garbage dump, is nothing less than a replica of the continental U.S.A., 833 yds. from parkway to shining parkway, with coconuts in Florida, corn in Iowa, and cash registers from Oregon to Maine...
Between seizures of hot blood and high deeds, the heroes-one for each generation -make corn squeezings. They are artists who operate the pot still as if it were a pipe organ, mixing corn and small grain with boiling water, adding yeast, and from this wort-which is what the mash is called-distilling clear ethyl alcohol. Redistilled to remove foul-tasting fusel oil, aged for color and character in charred oak casks, the alcohol becomes whisky. Robinson is so explicit that an attentive reader with no fear of federal agents could try it himself...
Burpee's current ambition is to have the marigold named the nation's floral emblem. He scorns the corn tassel promoted by Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas ("not a perfect flower"), the carnation backed by Colorado's Senator Gordon Allott ("Just try to grow them"), and the rose supported by Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott. Sniffs Burpee: "It is the emblem of England and eight other countries, four of which have fallen behind the Iron Curtain since selecting the rose as their emblem." He has even registered in Washington as a lobbyist to promote the marigold...
...Paris to Pleurs, 84 miles southeast, he was visiting the village where Malinovsky had been billeted with Russian troops serving on the western front during World War I. When Malinovsky pointed out the hayloft in which he had slept, Khrushchev swiftly moved in to extract every possible kernel of corn. "Cows below and a future marshal above," he said. "Well, cows make excellent heating appliances...
...best soldier Soviet Russia had produced, and as a champion at court who had no patience for the party's effort to establish control over the officer corps. Zhukov once reportedly told his pudgy boss: "We each have our specialities. Mine is the army. Yours is corn...