Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inhabitants never walk if they can ride. Their conversation is boring. The food in their inns-mainly smoked or salted bear fat, corn bread and weak coffee-is "very mediocre." Worse, travelers must often sleep on the floor, surrounded by couples engaged in various sexual acts...
...stay but would be fearful of what would happen to their property under black rule. Chief among the stayers might be many of Rhodesia's 6,000 white farmers, who have consistently blocked movement toward majority rule. One of them, the owner of a 10,000-acre corn and cattle spread near Selukwe in the Rhodesian midlands, happens to be Ian Smith...
Three months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's economists predicted that retail prices of food would rise only slightly this year. Last week they backed up that welcome forecast. According to the department's spring "crop production" report for 1976, the nation's corn crop will reach a record 6.55 billion bu. this year. Since corn is a key livestock feed, its abundance should help to hold down the price of meat. An equally important crop will do almost as well: the wheat harvest should come in at a near record 2.04 billion bu. This torrent...
...mild winter with little snow and a dry spring. Now the subsoil is starved for moisture. South Dakota's grasslands, for example, never had a chance to turn green; they are sere and yellow. Crops planted in the spring-oats, barley, durum, hard red wheat and even some corn-have been stunted by the scorching sun. Under normal conditions, they would be knee-high by this time. In many cases, they have, in fact, grown barely six inches tall...
...Clemente Pat's main preoccupation has been tending two vegetable gardens on the estate. She takes particular pride in her corn, beans and tomatoes...