Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brian Spense, assistant manager of the Corn Popper, said his flavored popcorn is "a unique and great last minute gift." The Corn Popper sends popcorn around the country by UPS, and features a tin can containing any six flavors. "Spearmint, Strawberry and Cherry will probably be very popular during the holidays because they are green and red," predicted Spense...
...door awaiting the arrival of our monsters. Each year we perform this ritual, following the Druids in their annual practice of calling forth the terrifying spirits of the age in an effort to dispel them. These are not children-no diminutive, sweet-voiced ghosts and witches reaching timidly for corn candy. They are the real monsters of our times, and they are not so easily appeased. Brace yourself. The moon is hidden in the clouds, the house as quiet as a tomb. And here they come again...
...honor in science was typical of the intensely private, no-nonsense researcher. Genetics is a science founded by a monk-19th century Augustinian Gregor Mendel-and McClintock is in every sense his disciple. For half a century she has labored in almost monastic solitude over her patch of Indian corn, or maize, much as Mendel did in his famous pea patch. In an era when most scientific work is done by large research teams, McClintock did not even have a laboratory assistant. ("Excuse me for being hoarse," she once told a scientist who stopped...
Thanks to a drought-induced shortage of corn and grain, some of America's pigs and cows have had their diets "upgraded"-changed, anyway...
...though, could begin coming from food prices. The worst drought since the 1930s has devastated many crops, while at the same time the Government's Payment-in-Kind program has encouraged farmers to leave some fields idle. The Agriculture Department said last week that this year's corn crop would be 48% smaller than last year's. The price of corn has already gone up about 60% since January, a surge that will eventually boost the cost of meat from corn-fed livestock. Schultze said that food prices would rise more than 5% next year, adding...