Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHEMICAL INDUSTRY continues to reap profits from the fumigant carbon tetrachloride--used on corn, wheat, rice, barley, oats, rye, sorghum and even popcorn--even though it is toxic to embryos, livers and kidneys, and may cause mutations, birth defects and cancer...
...Ralph Henry Gabriel, junior high school children were encouraged to report to the FBI anyone they suspected of "Communist activity." Still, the old heroes lingered on -Custer, Robert E. Lee, "the friendly Indian, Squanto," who welcomed the Plymouth Rock Pilgrims in 1620 and showed them how to plant corn...
...political emergency brings out the corn-pone opinion in fine force-the one which can't bear to be outside the pale, can't bear to be in disfavor, can't endure the averted face and the cold shoulder, wants to stand well with his friends, wants to be smiled upon, wants to be welcome.-Mark Twain...
Getting out of the truck, Glenney led Leach into a barn. The farmer pointed to a battered 1955 International Harvester tractor. "See this tractor," he said. "I bought that for $3,600 when corn was selling for $3 a bushel. Now this here new one," he said, indicating a bright green and yellow John Deere, "costs $30,000, and I bought that on $2 corn. That's what I mean by the squeeze." Leach was duly impressed. "I'm glad to get some of these things off my chest," Glenney said...
...festival, of course, is also a feast, as in food. Says the slow-talking voice over the loudspeaker at the Ninth Annual Antique Powerland Farm Fair in Brooks, Ore. (pop. 400): "Those of you with a rumble in your belly come have some barbecued chicken and corn on the cob." Many of the 2,000 or so who were gawking at the steam-engined tractors and thrashers did just that. Gilroy, Calif., which claims the title of the Garlic Capital of the World, held its First Annual Garlic Festival last week, and Lloyd Harris explained: "There's something about...