Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheerful, unassuming invincibility of its characters. Blessed with the warmth and goodness of home movies, Heartland's professionalism results from the uniform excellence of its cast and the subtle, piercing eye of its camera, which catches lights and darks and poses like a latter-day Vermeer. As simple as corn pone and just as good, Heartland reveals America, the America of Whitman's poetry, the America of open spaces and open people...
UConn quarterback Larry Corn took his team into Harvard territory several times, but the Huskies seemed to have trouble caused by first downs from the beginning of the game. Example: On a fourth down and six, Neil Gauvin punted directly to Harvard's John Dailey, and within three plays the Crimson had their third touch-down. Robert Bonner fought for Connecticut yardage, but his team was plagued by fouls and a strong, united Harvard defense...
...greatest Connecticut threat came when a pass from Corn set up a first down in Harvard territory, but the Huskies fumbled and Mark Mead recovered the ball for the Crimson. Harvard themselves fumbled early in the fourth period, but McGugan recovered the ball, and Lahti regained yardage lost on a penalty with two good passes...
Nature was kind this year, perhaps too kind. As the last cuttings of wheat are taken from the plains, the projected bumper harvest of 75 million metric tons (2.8 billion bu.) will smash last year's all-time high. The corn crop, 202 million metric tons, will also set a new record. Total American grain production will hit 322.5 million metric tons, more than 50% greater than the Soviet Union's third poor harvest in a row. But the bounty is bittersweet: farm income has fallen almost 40% since 1979. All that newly harvested grain has sent prices...
...Jesse Helms of North Carolina had his staff draw up a bill that mainly protected tobacco and peanuts, important products of his state. Senator Robert Dole of Kansas quietly worked on his own version, eventually adopted by the committee, which doubled Reagan's proposed subsidies for wheat and corn. Reagan further fractured farm unity by promising Southern Democrats, whose votes he needed for his economic package, that he would not oppose their sugar and peanut supports...