Word: cropsey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...away from disaster when a pair of isolated rainstorms came breezing through Hastings, Iowa, dumping a bit more than 6 in. of rain on his parched fields. "Now it looks like we might have a crop after all," says Phelps. Some 360 miles to the east, Herb Steffen of Cropsey, Ill., laments that he has not seen enough rain "to settle the dust," much less nurse his corn crop though its critical pollination period. "It's heartbreaking to watch crops die in the field," says Steffen's wife Georgia...
...always has to make a distinction between the intellectual characteristics and the morals," says Joseph Cropsey, the University of Chicago's director of graduate studies in political science. "The whole profession deplored and was shocked by what happened at Harvard, but it hasn't translated itself into the opinion that the department has deteriorated...
...When we think of Harvard, we think of the place where we lost some of our best applicants," Cropsey adds...
...above ground, Steffen steered his rumbling 1970 John Deere combine up and down the quarter-mile-long rows. Each ear of corn was picked, shucked and stripped of its hard kernels, and its denuded cob spat back into the field. Steffen, whose 420-acre farm is near Cropsey (pop. 90), thinks he is harvesting his best crops ever: perhaps 25,000 bu. of corn, 9,000 of soybeans. But that is not really good news. "If it goes another couple of years this way, I may be out of business," says Steffen, 34. "That...