Word: talled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wealth of the tall grass prairie was its undoing," writes Author John Madson, of Godfrey, Ill., in Where the Sky Began, his evocative story of the fecund heartland. Nearly a year's production of corn lies unused in bins and warehouses. A quarter of a year of soybeans is stored up. The Western plains are piled with a year's worth of surplus wheat. The harvest of the new wheat crop is almost finished, and it is a whopper: 2.2 billion bu. Providence seems to be pushing us toward some rendezvous with disaster. The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan...
...tall, spare man who normally dresses in nonclerical clothes, Curran, 52, is probably the best-known Catholic moral theologian in the U.S. today. The author of 16 books and a popular teacher, he has openly questioned the church's stance on contraception, abortion and extramarital sex. Broadly speaking, Catholic teaching holds that these acts are immoral in themselves and can never be allowed. Curran contends that there may be occasions when they are permissible. He also believes Rome should ease its ban on remarriage after divorce...
Even lack of water does not stop the determined. The town of Williamsburg, Iowa, staged a beach party last month when organizers trucked in 3 million lbs. of sand and declared that the pile was No-Wa-Wa Beach. Amid the tall corn, frolickers in bright trunks and coconut-shell bikinis played volleyball and rode around in convertibles. "It's easy for states that have oceans to have beach parties," says Organizer Steve Gander. "But in the middle of Iowa, we have to try a little harder...
...million bbl. The price for next month's delivery of the benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude jumped 30% in two days, to $15.08 per bbl. and closed the week at $14.82. Boasted one OPEC official: "We have weathered the storm. Talk about OPEC on its knees? We are standing tall again, and we are here to stay...
...look for. Just off the main road you'll find the Chilmark Community Center, a graying Cape Cod shingle building with four ill-kept clay tennis courts out back. In the far court on the left, whipping the ball over the net at breakneck speed, will be a tall young man sporting a vintage 1986 Kirkland House tee shirt with the memorable emblem "Kirkland House: Where Intelligence is Just Another Big Word" emblazoned across its front and back. For anyone trying to escape from the omnipresence of their alma mater, such a discovery can be rather disconcerting...