Word: tassel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title notwithstanding, Gypsy is a singularly sobersided affair until midway in Act II, when a trio of tassel-tossing campaigners bump, grind and bring down the house in an indelicate air for the G-string called You Gotta Have a Gimmick. Burlesque may have killed vaudeville, but a lot more of it might cure Gypsy...
Genetic Freaks. Corn is a hybridizer's delight because its male part (the tassel) and its female part (the immature ear) are separate on the plant and can easily be hand pollinated. Most other crops have their male and female parts close together. The long-sought key to separation of the sexes in order to hybridize other commercial crops came accidentally with the discovery of patches of sorghum that had hereditary male sterility. From this seedsmen developed a hybrid. This year the U.S. is planting 8,000,000 acres to hybrid sorghum for feed-half the entire sorghum crop...
...Jewish Polish refugee stranded in Paris as the Wehrmacht plunges toward the city in the late spring of 1940. Cooped up in the same fleabag hotel with him is Colonel Tadeusz Boleslaw Prokoszny (Curt Jürgens), a class-conscious Polish nobleman who lives like the last tassel in the dying lunatic fringe of men dedicated to the proposition that women are to be loved, vodka is to be drunk, war is to be lived and honor is to be died for -preferably all in the same moment. Together they make a team whose picaresque adventures betray a desperation cloaked...
...Listened quite patiently as Democrat Paul Douglas, whose home state of Illinois ranks No. 1 in corn production, urged a congressional joint resolution "designating the golden corn tassel as the floral emblem of the U.S." In support of his proposal-duly referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary Committee-Douglas read a sort of poem written by the late Edna Dean Proctor...
...white-suited man goes his way with no thought of the corn-tassel...