Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...background motif for Browne's poetry, which isn't really worth spotlighting. Drummer Jeff Porcara could easily be pounding away with one hand tied behind him, and pianist Craig Doerge is no Rick Wakeman. Once the violin is added, the song's mushiness begins to resemble overcooked cream of wheat...
Miraculous Change. In his most famous experiment, Lysenko presoaked winter wheat seeds in chilly water just before they germinated, and claimed a miraculous conversion: the seedlings were turned into spring wheat, which matures more rapidly and thus can produce greater yields. By such tactics, he insisted, more crops could be planted under harsh Russian climatic conditions. But while such "vernalization" worked under test conditions, it failed on a large scale. Despite Lysenko's insistence, there was no evidence of any innate genetic changes; he had merely induced a single generation of wheat to mature a little more rapidly...
...behavior. One explanation for its pervasiveness is offered by James Ritchie, executive director of the Gambling Commission. "There is in the breast of every person," he observes, "a desire to risk. It may be a desire to run for political office, or a desire by a farmer to plant wheat and see if the elements allow him to reap a crop, or a desire to buy stock or commodity futures. Or maybe it comes from a person who decides he has some disposable income and he's going to risk that money because he has a feeling he'll come...
...Sylvester Graham urged the eating of raw fruits and vegetables, food not "compounded and complicated by culinary process." Man should eat food the way God grew it, untouched even by salt and pepper, which, Graham claimed, could cause insanity. For that reason he opposed removing the bran from wheat and, for reasons that had more to do with conscience than science, became one of the first modern health-food faddists, the advocate of graham flour who gave his name to a cracker...
...generally higher than Democratic candidates have received in recent elections. Some of this gain obviously represents the white Baptist switch. But much of it comes from rural areas where farmers felt an affinity with their Georgia counterpart and hostility toward the Ford Administration because of the 1974 embargo on wheat sales to the Soviet Union. In Montgomery County, a rural wheat-growing area in southeastern Kansas that usually gives 60% of its vote to the G.O.P. contender, Ford won by 8,410 to 6,920-or only 54%. Carter also made inroads in the Republican farm vote in Oklahoma...