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Word: corns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vivid slang and the silly puns that Russians seem to love. "Let's see, how American am I?" he asks. "Well, I'm not a Yankee fan or a Forty-Niner, and I don't like Coca-Cola or pink shirts. But I love television, fast cars and corn. That's pretty American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov: Four Who Brought Talent | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...were big planes folded from 3-ft. sheets of heavy poster paper and little ones from bits of waxy British toilet tissue. One anxious aeronautics engineer flew in from Kansas to hand-deliver his delicate creations, while another tucked his into a cereal box insulated by stale flakes of Corn Total. A third, with touching trust in the U.S. Postal Service, simply scrawled the contest address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose. They were competing in four events -- distance, time aloft, aerobatics and aesthetic design -- in three divisions, professional, nonprofessional and junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Seattle: the Right Stuff, with Paper and Glue | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...conspiracy charges. For her part, Pauley displays a more empathetic style, laced with a self-deprecating wit, that works best when she is discussing topics of high emotion. Together, "Gumpaul" (as the pair is called in-house) projects a casual, good- humored relationship that goes down well with corn flakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Snap, Crackle, Pop At Daybreak | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...improve their sagging sales in foreign markets. Keeping that promise, Agriculture Secretary John Block last week unveiled a new program that will in effect subsidize farm exports. Over the next three years the Government will give $2 billion worth of its surplus stock of agricultural commodities, like wheat and corn, to U.S. export companies. Under the plan, exporters will continue to buy grain from American farmers at regular market prices, but could then, for example, combine their purchases with free grain from the Government and thus be able to sell shipments to foreign customers at reduced rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Trade: A Political Plum for Farmers | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...some of Madison Avenue's best and most memorable advertising. Currently the tag line "Coke is It!" is arrayed against "Pepsi. Choice of a New Generation." About five years ago, when the price of cane sugar went up sharply, Coke began shifting its basic sweetening ingredient to high-fructose corn syrup. Pepsi switched completely to the corn syrup sweetener this year. But the parts of each drink's formula that give the colas their distinctive tastes have remained essentially unaltered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiddling with the Real Thing | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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