Word: corns
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Life on the island is not all work and no play. Each of the schools has a soccer field and courts for basketball and volleyball. There are barbershops for the boys and hairdressing salons for girls, most of whom are coiffed with intricate "corn-row" braids. On Sundays there are bus trips to nearby beaches or sightseeing tours of the island. Sex is not a problem, the teachers insist. "They are told the facts of life, but there is no formal sex education as such," said a Mozambican instructor. Girls are free to talk with women teachers about the problems...
...simpler and more effective solution to the President's urge to strike back at the Soviets would have been to double the price of corn, soybeans and wheat for the Soviet Union and its satellite countries...
...tide has not flowed entirely in Moscow's direction. In 1948, after Tito persisted in pursuing an independent policy, Yugoslavia was expelled from the Corn-inform, the international alliance of Marxist-Leninist states headed by the U.S.S.R. China under Mao grew increasingly upset over Soviet "revisionism" in the early 1960s. All Soviet advisers were expelled, and since then relations with Moscow have varied from cool to hostile. Three other Communist countries are no longer dutiful Soviet satellites. Albania, from 1960 through 1978 a xenophobic bastion of Maoism in the Balkans, now scorns Peking, Washington and Moscow alike. Rumania, although...
...horde swarmed over frozen corn fields in search of natives, and otherwise entertained the Iowans with their big-city naiveté. A television news producer in Dallas called the Des Moines Register and asked, "Where do we find the pigs and corn? And can we cab there?" One reporter asked the state Democratic committee to help him find a caucus held in a small town fire station with a potbelly stove and a Dalmatian. "We said we could get him a fire station in a small town," said Sarah Herold, the party's press liaison, "but he would have...
Scarcely three weeks after corn, wheat and soybeans plunged on news of the U.S. ban on sale of 17 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union, cash prices of all three crops largely returned to pre-embargo levels. The reasons for the rebound are many: the boom in gold and silver has led to a general surge in commodities; war scares have fanned fears of a reduction in available world grain supplies; a 1 million-ton export order has come in from Mexico; and there are rumors of higher demand from China. Most important, traders who oversold when...