Word: tasselled
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...plant produces no pollen on its tassel. In order that only the desired pollen will father a new hybrid type, growers have always had to remove by hand the pollen bearing tassels in alternate plots of corn...
...might lose ground there or get in a tangle. Nevertheless, the mutuel patrons sent him off an 8-to-5 favorite last week in the Hambletonian Stakes (for three-year-old trotters), richest and most glory-laden of U.S. harness races, sometimes called the Hayseed Derby or the Corn-Tassel Derby because it is held in remote little Goshen...
Last Saturday night, on the stage of the Boston Opera House, I carried a spear in Aida--a spear with a big red tassel at the end. My roommate wore a wig and looked like a cocker spaniel...
After a shaky start, wheat was now second only to last year's bumper crop. Rice, soybeans, peanuts and pecans were headed for new records. Most other crops were far above average. The corn crop was phenomenal. From Illinois to Arkansas, the cornfields nodded in silky tassel. The expected crop of 3.5 million bushels was the biggest in U.S. history, and almost half again as large as last year's disappointing yield. It could bring cheaper pork by next spring, cheaper beef by fall, 1949. It should bring down the prices of butter, eggs, milk and poultry...
...Tassel-twirler Keith, of the Crawford Theatrical Bar, led off the two-pronged attack by signing a statement that she would "consider appearing at the Smoker" on condition that "friends" Thomas W. Grossman and Sherril H. Houston are elected Monday...