Word: turnip
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...only fault I find with Le Crime is Jean Wiener's music. Periodically, gypsy violins accompany a street quarrel or an earthy seduction, which is like covering a turnip with strudel dough...
...family never had an animal menace like this, said British Farmer Benjamin Banham, whose forebears have been tilling the soil near Great Yarmouth for 500 years. "Last fall they cleared out seven acres of my kale and 40 tons of swede [a kind of turnip grown for cattle fodder]." In Burgh Castle, after trapping 460 of the same varments that ate Banham's kale, Farmer John Berry was near despair: "If they carry on the way they do," said he, "they'll be master of the land in three years...
...Under. The kernel of the New Frontier proposals calls for establishment of a "national farmer advisory committee'' for each farm commodity or group of related commodities. Each committee would draw up a "supply adjustment program" for its commodity, if it took a notion to do so. The turnip committee, say. would draft a turnip plan and submit it to the turnip growers. If two-thirds of them approved it, it would automatically become law, at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, unless Congress vetoed the program within 60 days-and what Congressman would vote against turnips...
...brother has bad news," said Mr. K., "Novogoro has lost the annual turnip-growing contest to Smolensk again...
...recollection and advice made Gene dizzy. "You'll have more fun learning yourself," he said, and ate a turnip...