Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Typically Swedish. Many Swedes were turned off by the cold, urbane Palme, who often comes across as overbearingly arrogant. By contrast, Fälldin exuded an unthreatening sincerity. A pipe-smoking country boy who still raises sheep, cuts timber and grows oats and corn on his 668-acre farm, the new Prime Minister mixes easily with all kinds of people and speaks to them in simple language about their problems. Admitted an envious Social Democratic politician: "Fälldin is like your next-door neighbor. He's what people think of as typically Swedish. He's a clever...
...treated Smith to a Dutch uncle talk that one diplomat described as "tough to the point of brutality." Evidently, he warned Smith that Pretoria's future capacity for helping Rhodesia will be increasingly limited. As Smith well knows, an estimated $100 million worth of Rhodesian bulk exports of corn, minerals and tobacco are already held up on the Rhodesian side of the border for lack of space on South Africa's crowded rail lines to carry them...
Where Northerners grill, broil and boil, Southerners barbecue and fry and bake. No delicacies are more prized for lunch, breakfast or supper than Southern breads-spoon bread, crackling bread, corn bread, beaten biscuits or any other combination of corn meal and love. Hominy grits, served with eggs at breakfast or within any other meal are a guarantor of beauty, nutrition and happy days, you-all. In all the world there are no desserts more elegant than key lime pie, black bottom pie, pecan pie and fresh Georgia peach ice cream. Or, to wash it down, the pungent coffee...
...that is well worth saving. North Carolina's mountaineers know that they could make more money by abandoning their farms and moving to the cities, but most prefer to stay where they are. "I don't need a new job," says Sturgill, gesturing toward his well-tended corn and tobacco fields. "My job here started 200 years...
...such as people employed by farm suppliers and food processors. Four years ago, farmers gave Richard Nixon 71% of their votes. But farmers usually vote for the incumbent party only when farm prices are high. Lately, prices have been running below 1975 levels as buyers anticipate bumper harvests of corn and wheat and lower demand from abroad for U.S. grain because of good harvests in the Soviet Union and India. Last week, September wheat contracts closed in Chicago at $3.19 a bushel, down from $4.13 a year...