Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needed for the red clay failed to fall three out of the past six years. In July the unrelenting heat went to 105 degrees, then 107 degrees. Mockery came in the past few weeks when the heavens relented, bringing floods followed by crabgrass. Southern fields look green, but the corn leaves are twisted in knots, the peanut crop has shriveled...
...after day through the summer, Earl Simpson, of Monroe, N.C., got up with the sun and peered through the mist around his farm, vainly praying for rain. Ninety percent of his corn was lost. The wheat will come in about 30% of usual; soybeans will make a miserable 15%. "We can't go much longer unless something changes," Simpson says. Then he pauses and his face grows tender and sad. "They say the best product off a farm is the children." Earl's two sons, who farm with him, look down. Simpson will join the combine cavalcade, crops...
...than 40,000 victims of famine have tramped across battle zones to reach the southern Sudanese town of Wau and its life-giving supplies of food. Last week not a single ounce of relief grain was delivered to the starving region. A transport plane filled with 315 tons of corn stood idle in neighboring Uganda, and 200 food-laden vehicles were halted at the border. With food supplies all but exhausted, some famished Sudanese were reduced to eating leaves off the trees. And when guerrilla fighting broke out in the crumbling provincial capital, many of the half-starving refugees were...
Even lack of water does not stop the determined. The town of Williamsburg, Iowa, staged a beach party last month when organizers trucked in 3 million lbs. of sand and declared that the pile was No-Wa-Wa Beach. Amid the tall corn, frolickers in bright trunks and coconut-shell bikinis played volleyball and rode around in convertibles. "It's easy for states that have oceans to have beach parties," says Organizer Steve Gander. "But in the middle of Iowa, we have to try a little harder...
...because Alien was a hit; if it was a flop, it was because we did it." He needed to find ways of cross-referencing to it, reminding viewers of a beloved source, which he managed in both small and large ways (they still serve corn bread on spaceships, and Aliens' voyagers do not like it any better than the Alien crew did). At the same time, Cameron and Hurd, who had by now become partners, had to find ways of bursting generic bonds...