Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Business Secretary Esther Nichols' parakeet, Rosebud, is said to have been rescued from an attempted suicide after diving from a fifth-floor window overlooking Madison Avenue, while Copy Desk Assistant Judith Paul's late Chihuahua-terrier crossbreed, Cookie, was known to hunt bees, crack walnuts and eat corn...
Through the summer, the white community waited with waning confidence for state or federal officials to act. Meanwhile, the Indians planted corn, beans, potatoes and tomatoes and moved in a dozen head of cattle, as well as rabbits, pigs, chickens, ducks and geese. They felled trees to block the snowmobile trails that cross the camp and erected a tall tepee near the old camp gate. They barred all non-Indian visitors, courteously but firmly escorting out occasional vacationers who strayed onto the site. Their numbers were, and are, a mystery. By some estimates, they...
...typical breakfast menu at Harvard included, among other things, pork chops, fricasseed chicken, cold ham and corn beef. Consumption patterns have changed somewhat since then, but--in a world where 10,000 people die of starvation every week--it seems that Harvard and Radcliffe students still consume more than their fair share of meat. Beef now appears on the menu in some form at least once a day, and students can help themselves to as much as they...
...runaway price of staples, a source of anguish to housewives and politicians, has spelled disaster to a considerably less vocal segment of U.S. society: the Southern moonshiner. All the essential ingredients of corn likker have skyrocketed: sugar (up 300% in a year), grain and yeast, as well as the copper used for piping and kettles and the plastic jugs in which illicit hooch is transported and sold. A gallon of moonshine that used to sell for $1 now goes for $6 or more. As a result, the tide of "white whisky" that used to flow from Appalachian hills and hollers...
...bonded bourbon. In fact, while the smalltimers are being forced out of business, big operators are holding their own. The "revenoo" recently seized 1,146 gallons of 'shine (worth up to $8,000 untaxed) in Dawsonville, Ga.-their biggest local haul in four years. However, connoisseurs of corn complain that mass-production methods result in a relatively tasteless brew (which also tends to lack the dead rats and flies that spiced old-time likker). White lightning may yet find its uses. Once, when an agent cleaned off his fingerprinting machine with some confiscated corn, he found that it dissolved...