Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tasty Prices. Shoppers welcome the trend as an alternative to cellophane-wrapped tomatoes and other supermarket fare. Says Russell Wichterman, a Detroit importer: "At the market I can pick every tomato, every ear of corn and every potato myself and know it's all fresh." The prices are tasty too. Because there is no middleman, farmers can sell their produce at prices one-third to one-half less than in supermarkets. At the Greenmarket last week, a dozen ears of sweet corn sold for $1, as did 4 Ibs. of fat tomatoes. At a nearby supermarket, the same package...
Despite such problems, supporters of the new markets are growing like corn in Kansas. Politicians hail the farm stalls as excellent campaign grounds. In Syracuse, a city-zoo employee collects the market's discarded carrot tops and wilted lettuce leaves for the animals...
...gagged at your reference to President Ford's attempt to eat an unwrapped tamale as gauche [Aug. 9]. Wrapped in dried corn shucks, Texas tamales are cooked in boiling liquid. The casing or wrapping has a paper-like texture which must be removed before eating the tamale. It would be more gauche to eat a wrapped tamale...
Roger Shaff of Camanche, Iowa, drills the seed corn every spring into the black soil of his 550 acres, harvests the heavy yield in the fall and feeds the corn to livestock that he sells. His life is his family and his land and his right to do things his way. C. Lee Mantle of Painesville, Ohio, is retired now from his real estate business. He founded it, saw it grow to a firm employing ten people. In his small corner of this country, it was a glorious adventure. He wants to make sure that that kind of opportunity...
Some bodies were easy to find: they dangled grotesquely from trees, protruded from shoals, or were wedged into crevices high up on the canyon wall. But the waters had hidden corpses everywhere. Others were found in corn-and hayfields near Loveland, eight miles beyond the canyon's mouth. One body was carried 25 miles to Greeley. At week's end the death total was nearing 100. But, incredibly, more than 800 people were still missing six days after the flood-the most graphic illustration of the power of the water that had cascaded down from the mountains...