Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hear the language of the prairie wind. The muffled groan of a forgotten and rusted windmill. The taut, thin cry of a young hawk at a thousand feet poised on invisible thermal crests. The worried whispers of hundreds of millions of stalks of corn, ear to fat ear, leaf on leaf. It all says more in ten minutes about beginnings and endings, about hopes and disappointments than Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale have said in a year-a loud, loud year...
Strange how the pressures of the world seem to have cropped out in the center of the country. The fecund fields of Adair County, Iowa, yield more corn than anyone can sensibly conceive (5,308,000 bu. made up of at least 400 billion individual kernels, any one of which makes a good chew for a boy doing nothing but hiking in the sun and tasting the earth's power). That is corn coveted by the adversary, the Soviet Union. Corn that would feed the hungry of Bangladesh if they could only get it. Corn that is so abundant...
...were just nice and convenient. Example: medicine cabinets that light up when touched. Still another: a hot-air popper for gourmet popcorn. Earlier models did not work with such popcorn because of extra moisture in the corn...
...Idaho, swarms of them can be seen from miles away, and troubled farmers speak of "watching the grasshoppers coming over the mountains." The insects are imperiling $1.1 billion worth of alfalfa, grain, beans and potatoes in southern Idaho. In South Dakota, grasshoppers, army worms and corn borers have laid waste to thousands of acres of crops...
...everyone. By noon of one busy morning, she already had dinner made: a variation on shepherd's pie with layers of potatoes, red onions and scallions, green peas and sautéed turkey, topped by a layer of Jiffy biscuit mix-accompanied, as are most Lewis meals, by corn on the cob and a salad...