Word: crop
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Harvard's fortunes are subject to the whim of the corn crop, which has been decimated by high wind and hail in the last two years. "There's many a farmer that has to stand out there every night and literally guard their field--pray for the hail not to come," says Brent Williamson, principal for the 4th through 12th grades at the Harvard Public Schools...
Harvard's fortunes are subject to the whim of the corn crop, which has been decimated by high wind and hail in the last two years. "There's many a farmer that has to stand out there every night and literally guard their field--pary for the hail not to come," says Brent Williamson, principal for the 4th through 12th grades at the Harvard Public Schools...
Desperation and The Regulators will bring a return to sturdier, more surefire thrills: heaps and heaps of gore (the words rill and freshet crop up in relation to hemorrhaging), ambiguous but decidedly malevolent supernatural powers, and cataclysmic battles between good and ultimate evil. (Is there any other kind in horror novels?) Both books feature a broken-down writer whose output has dwindled from his glory days--one imagines that might be a scary thought for King. But here's an even scarier idea for a novel: What about a writer who couldn't stop writing--ever...
Behind her, photographers cover the beach, swarming around like locusts waiting to devour the next crop of tearful moments. The governor has come to town, and rumor has it that the president may be here soon as well...
Among teachers and counselors who deal with teens on a daily basis, such words as crisis and overwhelming crop up repeatedly. Rosemary Rubin, one of two consultants with the Los Angeles Unified School District suicide-prevention unit, says she receives emergency calls about eight-year-olds, and even four-year-olds, threatening to kill themselves. "People don't want to believe that children have problems where they could possibly think about ending their lives, yet this is what's going on," says Rubin, who worked with San Pedro High School in the wake of both sets of suicides. "The crises...