Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hundred years ago, my ancestors were drinking patriotic coffee instead of tea. Slightly more than one hundred years ago, the family beverage was made from a mixture of parched corn and yams, as the federal blockade kept coffee and tea from the Confederacy. Now we are urged to drink tea instead of coffee. This time, however, come King George, General Grant or frost, my family will drink what it wishes. Still, I am thinking of storing corn and yams...
People in rural areas were afraid that even though Carter will be the first farmer in the White House since Thomas Jefferson, a peanut grower may not understand corn-belt problems. Because of unseasonably dry and cold weather this winter, the Midwest may end up at harvest time with unusually low yields in such high-income crops as corn and soybeans...
...Butz policy had its successes, thanks to a lot of luck-record corn and wheat harvests as well as big Soviet grain purchases. With the 1977 harvests expected to set new records, farmers may soon need protection from falling prices. Says Bergland: "I favor the free market, but when I say free market, I don't mean bankrupt prices...
Washington attorney in the running for HUD and HEW . . . Age 52 . . . Born in an Illinois corn-belt town, daughter of a railroad waiter, finished No. 1 at Howard University and George Washington University Law School . . . Has 30 honorary degrees . . . Taught law at Howard...
...Here I will offer all my love, my pity, my aid and my protection to the people." She ordered the Aztec to tell the bishop to build a sanctuary to her on a nearby hillside, where the Spanish had destroyed a temple to the Aztec goddess of earth and corn known as the "Little Mother." When the bishop refused, the Virgin made Castilian roses bloom among the hillside rocks, and Juan Diego took them to the bishop in his scrape. When he opened his cloak, it bore a miraculous painting of the Virgin in unmistakably Indian form, with a brown...