Twenty yards in' he turned right, parallel to the road again, and ran on, keeping low so they wouldn't see his dark head of hair bobbing amid the yellow corn tassels.

The cold wind brushed her cheek; corn tassels hished like ocean waves.

The first recipe in the book, for tamales with corn tassels, which also requires the fermented drink pulque (use light beer instead), gives you some idea.

Later, when the corn tassels ripen, maidens make offerings with corn pollen.

Lawmakers simply found the competition - among the rose, the marigold, the corn tassel, the mountain laurel, the columbine, the dandelion and a host of other candidates - too hot an issue to touch.

Pollen from corn tassels is used and is richly symbolic of purity as well as of peace, happiness, and prosperity.

Models wore their hair straight up from their heads, like strangled corn tassels, and their bodies were similarly bound below, by intricately cut fabrics.

The next morning, at five-thirty, Garland and I drove into town with the windows open and smelled the corn tassels, which we couldn't see in the dark.

"In August, right from the center of the plant comes a big stalk like a corn tassel," said Mr. Carella in his little jungle of about 150 potted plants.

Through his work, the laborious operation of removing corn tassels for making hybrid crosses was eliminated by development of a corn sterility that inhibited pollen shedding.