Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly not eager to have the inflationary specter of a large grain export dangling before the public-and the Democrats. The Republicans and the nation are still smarting from the "great grain robbery" of 1972, when the Soviets secretly bought up some 25% of America's wheat crop plus much corn...
Sizable grain exports would seem unwise in the light of this year's crop drop. Wheat growers are expected to produce a record of 1.8 billion bushels,-up 4% from last year, but they are the cheerful exception. Floods, drought and early fall frost have sharply reduced crops. The Agriculture Department, which raised the hopes of foreign buyers by grossly overestimating the size of the crop earlier this year, released its latest forecasts last week. The corn harvest may come to 4.7 billion bushels, down 16% from last year; and soybeans to 1.3 billion bushels, down...
...could be taken as a justification of the spying activities that he proposed and supervised. He perceives a radical threat to the "constitutional system" because the right of peaceful assembly "to seek redress of grievances was corrupted into violence, and freedom of expression into license." Words such as fatherland crop up repeatedly, along with Liddy's conviction that the U.S. is smothering and softening in permissive flab. He praises the "tough, disciplined, confident esprit of the German soldier" at the start of World War II and urges a reawakening of "duty, loyalty, patriotism." His conclusion is no less fervent...
...heaviest-handed heavy now operating in the movies, but he does bring a certain entertaining enthusiasm to his work as a big-city hit man lost in the alien corn. Any other actor might have broken up when required to order an innocent and helpless melon crop to be machine-gunned as an act of vengeance. But the sadistic gleam in Lettieri's eye burns bright through a scene that proves there is entirely too much juice and rind in our movies today...
Nearly 10% of the U.S. corn crop is treated with aldrin, a highly effective pesticide. Both the manufacturer, Shell Chemical, and the Department of Agriculture consider the substance essential to control insect damage in the Midwest corn belt. Recently, after a year of still-unfinished hearings, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it plans to order a halt in the production of aldrin and a related Shell pesticide, dieldrin. Reason: the chemicals present "extremely high cancer risk...