Word: corns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these youthful concerns about the dignity of baseball did not hold much corn when the owners were willing to pay the players lots of money. Baseball attendance has increased throughout the 1980s and early 1990s and the game, at least in raw, unsentimental, cash-generated terms, was more popular than ever the day before this current strike. (August 18, 1994, to be exact...
...easily. The most important votes weren't even close. Outside the House chamber, however, the picture was very different. Last week House Republicans were showing their first real signs of strain since their euphoric takeover in January. The media were filled with images of the President sharing tacos and corn nibblets with the clientele of an elementary-school cafeteria in Alexandria, Virginia�a direct hit in the public relations war over Republican plans to curb the growth of the school-lunch program. Wounded Republicans cried foul, with Congressman John Boehner of Ohio declaring, "There is no tactic too shameless...
...association of dictator and preacher began with a Robertson relief group, Operation Blessing, a branch of which has botched a corn-cultivation project on a 50,000-acre farm outside the capital, Kinshasa. Last year during the Rwandan refugee crisis, Operation Blessing expanded its humanitarian efforts to Goma but was criticized for spending too much money on transportation, pulling its workers out too soon and proselytizing. ``They were laying on hands,'' an American aid worker recalls, ``speaking in tongues and holding services while people were dying all around.'' Many relief agencies are notorious for mismanagement and backbiting, but even considering...
Royal Plankenhorn, a member of the United Paperworkers International Union, described a strike against the A.E. Staley Company, which operates a corn processing plant in Decatur...
...tablespoons light corn syrup...