Word: turnip
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...Americans weren't alarmed over the energy crisis. Why, any day now some Jonas Salk at Con Edison will find a way to make electricity from turnip greens, and our cars will run pollution-free for a month on just water and a tiny pill...
...things the Nearings could take for granted in 1932. If they find what they are looking for, the discovery could help redeem the country. In the meantime they could do worse than heed the word from Cold Comfort Farm: Keep your compost wet. After a hard winter, even a turnip can look like a godsend...
...prices and a rebate is getting harder and harder each year. The rebate rates for 1968-69 were cut slightly. "Nobody wants to cut them," says Brown. "But we can't pay what we don't earn. As they say, you can't get blood out of a turnip...
...with the same brutal indifference that he once applied to sides of beef in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. "When I was training, I got to thinkin' way back to the farm in Beaufort, S.C.," recalled Frazier, one of 14 children. "I thought about the days I ate raw turnip butts and radishes with dirt on 'em. Then I thought about how I will retire undefeated with a million dollars and go into business as a singer." He thought, too, about Quarry. "He bleeds," said the ex-butcher. "He cuts. I expect we'll see some more...
...GREAT BIG ENORMOUS TURNIP, by Alexei Tolstoy, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Watts; $3.95). "The mouse pulled the cat, the cat pulled the dog," etc., until mouse, cat, dog, granddaughter, old man and old woman get the enormous turnip out of the ground...