Word: peanuts
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...wend your way down Hanover street, passing peanut vendors and stumping missionaries, you'll notice something different in the air. It's apt to be the smell (ugh) coming from a dozen cheap bars, or the odor (delicious) issuing from the kitchen of the Old Venice Pizzeria. Few things about Hanover street are calculated to make the Dartmouth fugitive nostalgic. The Old Venice does it bit with cheese, tomatoes, clanti, and low prices...
...rodders look with disdain on the lowly jalopies, call them "peanut wagons," "crocks" or "goats." A hot rod is different. "The only way I can define one," said one Los Angeles youngster, "is that it's something with four wheels that's got something inside." The hot rod rolls out of a backyard garage a bumperless, fenderless, hoodless, roofless, uncomfortable concoction which runs so fast its driver must chug and jerk through town in low or second gear to stay under the speed limit...
Wispy British Historian Arnold Toynbee, now lecturing in the Midwest, admitted his complete satisfaction with two American products: peanut butter and Bing Crosby...
...Breaking Point. In Manhattan, Morton Krouse filed suit for the return of 46 pennies he had dropped in subway vending machines since Sept. 28 without receiving a single peanut...
...eight o'clock in the morning we entered the offices of the Central Committee. I glanced at my fellow guests. Smirking with satisfaction, drooling with superiority, a look of pre-eminence over all other mortals . . . plastered on their faces, they might have been entering Paradise . . . Suddenly a peanut-shaped head, surmounted by a military haircut and decked off with a magnificent pair of long moustaches, rose above them . . . one hand slipped into his overcoat and the other folded behind him, a la Napoleon . . . Comrade Stalin stood posed before the saints and worshippers...