Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...startling study was enough to drive men to drink. According to a report released last week by the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, bourbon, America's beloved corn squeezings, contains female-type sex hormones that may be responsible for the "feminized" appearance-enlarged breasts and beardless faces-of some alcoholic men. The culprit, wrote Judith Gavaler, a Medical Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, may be phytoes- trogen, a female-type hormone found in corn...
That is about the only unwelcome side effect. Tofutti is a dieter's and a cardiologist's dream. Blended with high-fructose corn sweeteners, it contains 128 calories in four ounces, about the same as frozen yogurt, but fewer than the 250 or more for premium ice cream. NutraSweet, the sugar substitute, may soon be used to further reduce calories. Because Tofutti is both butterfat and cholesterol-free, Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach even serves the confection to heart patients. It contains no lactose, good news for the millions of Americans who suffer an adverse reaction...
...fellow in a funny suit. So the Disney folks painstakingly trained the Pekins to accept the costumed canard as the next best thing to Mom. Last week Donald proudly led his faithful followers past squealing crowds of early-morning guests to a giant birthday cake decorated with peas, corn and carrot candles. Unfortunately, the web-footed wonders were too busy quacking up to go for the goodies...
...against the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in England. The girl in the red skirt refers to the scarlet woman of Rome; the lamb in her lap is about to sicken from the green apple of false knowledge it has bitten; the sheep, wandering unattended into the corn, are the strayed flock of the Anglican clergy...
...late morning we emerged from low lying clouds that hung tenaciously to the lush mountain. We began a slow descent into the valley, surrounded by rows of corn, tobacco and coffee fields. Moments later we entered Pantasma. Thick forests stretched boundlessly. Through the lens of a MimiyaZE, it was a breathtaking experience, but for the inhabitants of Pantasma, the fertile forests and mountains of the region are the sites of kidnappings, ambushes and other wartime cruelties...