Word: cornstalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was, of course, much blood. First a man, lying by the rail line, still alive, crying, with his leg severed at the shin and the shinbone sticking out like a white cornstalk. He must have fallen under the wheels of the train. Then another man, still alive, his hip mangled and bloody. But the blood was not my chief distress; it was my inability to make any sense of what I was seeing. In a famine, where no one kills but nature, there are no marks on the body when people die; nature itself is the enemy-and only...
...still the quiet, low-keyed prairie politician who won a Senate seat in South Dakota by hopping out of his car to talk to farmers in the fields. In conversation he can be witty and charming, but on the hustings he turns as dry as last year's cornstalk. Though he is supported by much the same constituency that was captivated by Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy in 1968, he does not arouse the same enthusiasm. His organization has to compensate for what he lacks in personal appeal...