Word: corns
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McClintock, who won the 1970 National Medal of Science, is best known for her experiments on the genetics of corn, which appear in many genetics textbooks to explain basic principles in genetic theory. Born in Hartford, Conn., she received her graduate and undergraduate training in botany at Cornell. She has taught at the University of Missouri, served on scientific boards, written numerous articles in biological journals, and now works in Washington's Carnegie Institution...
...party one day he confides his loss to an editor, who signs him to a three-book contract. The surrogate feet become television celebrities, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in the movie version of Sykes' life, and he goes off to make a television commercial for corn plasters...
...news behind us." Heller also expects some relief on the food front by summer, though the price of beef will continue to be hefty while cattlemen rebuild their still skimpy herds. At the same time, production of pork and poultry is increasing, there are abundant "carryover" supplies of corn and soybeans from last season's harvests, and, says Heller, "the winter wheat crop looks great...
...Symposium only a little, your thinking man should be able to talk with his mouth full, dauntless even in the presence of hiccups. An informal daily dialogue is staged in the sunken dining area of the center by men and women whose mouths are deliciously occupied with golden corn bread, creamy fried chicken and other Carolina dishes prepared by the cooks-in-residence, Alice and Lucy...
There are several novelty strains of sweet corn, notably "candy stick," which is only one inch thick but a foot long and is ideal for freezing; other innovations include the first bush-type butternut squash and a tomato, Long-Keeper, that stays fresh up to four months after picking. The redoubtable Burpee catalogue alone offers such enticements as the spacemaster cucumber, a pumpkin whose seeds can be eaten raw, and Sugar Bush watermelon, which represent years of genetic selection not only for flavor but -more important to the home gardener -for compact growth in a limited space...