Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whirling blades of police helicopters hovering above, the demonstrators poured over the parking lot. They clapped and cheered as they saw a second line of demonstrators moving inland from the sea like a slow subway train. Stopping about every 70 yards, they seeded their path with Indian corn. A third group, coming from the north, made a stone walkway across the marsh, scattering the rocks after they had passed in order to leave no mark...
...John Kennedy blew up at the New York Herald Tribune, and canceled all 22 White House subscriptions to the newspaper They used to keep the bad clips from Ike to avoid eruptions of his barracks temper. L.B.J. thought the press was a giant conspiracy to portray him as "your corn-pone President." During Watergate, Ron Ziegler's press briefings often had a portion devoted to the sins of the Washington Post...
...vanish from the table, forcing dieting coffee and tea drinkers to take their favorite brew straight-or with sugar. Leading soft-drink manufacturers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are promising to continue marketing diet drinks, presumably by reducing sugar content of some beverages, resorting to sweeteners like high-fructose corn syrup, and perhaps adding citrus or other flavorings. But some of these newcomers may be richer in calories than saccharin-sweetened brands and may not be as tasty...
Indeed, Uganda is a shabby relic after six years of monumental misrule. The economy is a shambles. Nobody is starving, since there are plenty of bananas, the main staple for both food and (in distilled form) liquor. Corn, tapioca and yams also help ensure enough food for survival. But apart from the soil, not much of anything works today in Idi Amin's Uganda. Coffee and cotton were Uganda's chief export crops, but Asian and European marketing expertise has gone, and exports have declined drastically. At a time when coffee is at world-record high prices...
Giant one-celled organisms--they couldn't have been any less than four feet tall--were literally enveloping everything in their path: farm animals, ears of corn, television news anchorpeople, controlled substances. And there was a lab technician in there, dressed up in a lab technician's outfit, and wearing a gas mask...