Word: bushel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they say they are. When Felix wears bright flowered suspenders with checkered pants he looks like a fool. When Gertrude says that her family makes use of all 1000 ways to be dreary; when Felix says that in marrying him Gertrude would be hiding her light under a bushel, he being the bushel; and when Eugenia says she is a deserted baroness left with very little, there is nothing more or less to believe...
...seeing cast iron out there," Paisley says, nodding toward the tarmac. "You're seeing aluminum. You're not seeing eight-cylinder engines. You're seeing four and even two. You look at some of these drive trains and you can put them in a bushel basket - that's how small they are. That's an indication of the cars of the future...
Getting out of the truck, Glenney led Leach into a barn. The farmer pointed to a battered 1955 International Harvester tractor. "See this tractor," he said. "I bought that for $3,600 when corn was selling for $3 a bushel. Now this here new one," he said, indicating a bright green and yellow John Deere, "costs $30,000, and I bought that on $2 corn. That's what I mean by the squeeze." Leach was duly impressed. "I'm glad to get some of these things off my chest," Glenney said...
...complete, which takes less than a week, the mess is dumped into a still, where the alcohol is boiled off. Basically just moon shiner's gear, the device consists of a steel drum with a chimney-like funnel and a condensing vat to catch the distilled alcohol. A bushel of vegetable matter can yield two to three gallons of fuel. A small still may produce ten gallons...
...tale of garlic (the early Greeks and Israelites learned about it from the Egyptians). He waxes more poetic about apples, rejecting the notion that this was the fruit forbidden to Adam and Eve. "The apple-the apple I know, the apple of country cider and the autumn roadside bushel-would be out of character in so sinister a role...