The jackhammers receded to a sound like popping corn.
"What a place that would be for popping corn!"
Over that sound, and much more frightening, was a sound like popping corn.
As an adult, he dedicated all his free time to developing a new strain of popping corn.
Many types of small-scale home methods for popping corn also exist.
The result was a machine that popped corn in its own seasoning - uniformly for the first time.
One man had built a small fire and was popping corn.
We'd set around with the fire crackling, sometimes popping corn or having a taffy pull, and there would be stories told.
Previously, vendors popped corn by holding a wire basket over an open flame.
And this hard court, 102 degrees when the match began at high noon, was indeed hot enough to pop corn.