To cause a reader to see in her mind's eye an entire autumnal landscape, for example, a writer needs to deliver only a few words and images — such as corn shocks, pheasants, and an early frost.
Devens found no camp, since an earlier patrol apparently confused corn shocks as tents in the evening shadows; he halted and asked Stone for instructions, who responded to push closer to Leesburg.
But then ethanol companies got a rude shock: corn prices hit record highs this summer after the Midwestern floods.
In 2011, a zookeeper resigned after failing to follow animal-handling instructions that resulted in the death of a corn snake from hyperthermic shock.
In the bottom half, shocks of corn were transformed into tepees and the field into an Indian camp by the boy's imagination.
In the autumn of 2000, a California woman named Grace Booth went into anaphylactic shock after eating three corn tacos; after ruling out all other food allergies, she became suspicious about the corn in the tortillas.
Enter the 4-H movement, which gave youngsters hybrid seeds to plant, then waited for the shock as children's corn outgrew their parents'.
Whether Russian wheat or American corn, problems in one country can send shock waves through global markets.
But the sudden setback has come as a shock, to company executives and to investors (Corning shares have plunged to $14.54 today from more than $113 last September).
For example, Runge and fellow University of Minnesota economics professor Benjamin Senauer wrote in the May/June 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs, "The enormous volume of corn required by the [U.S.] ethanol industry is sending shock waves through the food system.
