Word: cornstalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peasant lying bleeding near the roadbed. He had fallen from a refugee train some hours before. The train wheels had cut his foot off. He was all alone, crying, and his flesh was mangled on the rail. The bones of his foot were sticking out like a thin white cornstalk. I broke open my medicine kit and gave Kim some sulfanilamide and we raced on to tell someone to send water and a doctor. But there was no doctor within a day's journey...
Henry Wallace stood last week on the cornstalk-decorated stage of the Coliseum in Des Moines to undergo what was a political ordeal for a shy man-to accept the Democratic nomination for Vice President. His unruly hair combed back for a change, his wide features expanding in a boyish grin, he beamed on the crowd in a way that made it unmistakable-it was a great occasion for him. The crowd of 7,000 to 8,000, almost filling the Coliseum, roared back, waved banners WELCOME HOME, HANK and WHO WANTS WINDY WENDELL WILLKIE...