Sentence:  Homes and factories and schools and a big wide federal highway , instead of peaceful <WSD>corn</WSD> to rest your eyes on while you tried to rest your heart , while you tried not to look at the balloon and the bandstand and the uniforms and the flash of the instruments . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times