Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lesser scale, three kinds of insects are attacking sweet corn in Maryland and Pennsylvania: the fall army worm, the corn-ear worm and the European corn borer. Ironically, the corn has been so lush this year that sprays used to combat the worms do not fully penetrate the thick foliage. Pest controllers estimate that Maryland farmers could lose up to 75% of their corn crops...
...with a sign proclaiming FREE BEER. At Varina (pop. 140), where the Lions Club put on a spread (ham sandwiches, apples, homemade cookies, hot dogs) outside the elementary school, members thoughtfully spiked rolls of toilet paper on fence posts bordering the usefully protective 8-ft.-tall rows of corn. Night after night from the instant campgrounds across Iowa arose a bizarre melange of aromas: marijuana, freshly baked cookies, barbecues, sweat and suntan oil. Some folks thought the fragrance should be bottled. Essence de Ragbrai...
...every saloon on this ride." Alas, for the pride of the Doyles, Pat crashed his bike on the fourth day in Iowa Falls, all those saloons and 250 miles from the last watering hole in Clinton. For those who made it from river to river, surviving the buttered corn, sweet rolls, doughnuts, lemonade, watermelon, apples, popcorn, homemade cookies, eggs-any-style, pork-burgers, wienies and pancakes, it was a nice way to make friends, stretch undiscovered muscles and, as Tour Director Don Benson put it, "eat your way across Iowa...
...with wild flowers in brilliant bloom. And in the foreground is another vision of natural beauty: Katharine Hepburn. If she looks a bit like some high-spirited English school mistress, that's because she is. On location for a television remake of Broadway's 1940 success, The Corn Is Green, Hepburn is cast as the indefatigable Miss Moffat, a sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine previous films...
...bought another 2,000 tons of corn for burning over the next six months. There is not enough surplus old seed corn for it ever to become a major fuel source, but the Department of Energy has commissioned an investigation into corn and other potential emergency fuels. Meanwhile, in Jerry Brown's California, energy advisers are looking into a variety of other alternatives, including walnut shells and rice husks...