Word: seed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consensus at Toad's was that Mondale took fright at the possibility of being linked to the leftist politics of Wallace, who when dropped by Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 went off and formed a radical third party. The ceremony decorously dwelled on Wallace's contributions to hybrid seed corn, which cooled Mondale off. But there was never much enthusiasm for Mondale at Toad...
...spouses and their 33 children, has made its fortune on a family-owned gold mine in an unnamed South American country. Each summer they retreat from the capital city to their country home, built near their gold mine and surrounded by profile fields of thistle. Each autumn, the thistles seed, the air gets too thick to breathe, and the Ventura family returns to the city...
...fence comes down; the natives--many of whom work in the Ventura mine--enter, the cousins' incestuous behavior flourishes, two of the cousins make off across the plains with the family gold. A year goes by in the park within that one larger day. The thistles go to seed and the cousins survive by staying huddled closed to the ground, according to native custom. Then the adults return, having passed a day in the country, and learn with horror that time has warped while they were away. Afraid of what might have happened in their house, they flee...
...Crimson crushed the Big Green without the services of both Richard Jackson, out with the flu, and Peter Dinneen, who has suffered a mysterious injury to his leg. In addition, second seed David Boyum, last year's number two player in the country, has been sidelined all season with a wrist injury...
...rest of the squad has been playing well. Jernigan, the first seed, is fresh from a victory in the singles championship in Cleveland and appears unbeatable. Co-captains Jim Lubowitz and Spencer Brog have gained valuable experience playing in the first and second positions this season and may be the best in the country at numbers four and five...