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Word: potato (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Families more concerned with their roots than with their branches and leaves are like potato plants-the best parts are underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...able ta make it and ya got your teeth in a jar and those teeth say, 'Yes I can, yes I can.' [At this point Sister Boogie Woman puffs with exertion.] 'Yes I can. Yes I can.' I say think of yourself as a potato chip and life as a dip. I say think of yourself as a chicken leg and life as Shake 'n Bake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Amber Jim asked Gilmore what TV shows he liked best. He didn't watch TV, but he liked to go to drive-in movies and eat popcorn and potato chips with his girl friend, Nicole Barrett. Music? He liked all kinds, Gilmore confided, but cowboy music most-Hank Williams, Johnny Cash. And who did he think he had been in previous incarnations? Perhaps an Indian. "I feel close to Indians, and Indians like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Idyll of Gary and Amber Jim | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...disabled), which earlier picked up what may have been the only Marsquake to have occurred so far during the mission. They also plan to maneuver one of the Viking orbiters to within 50 kilometers (31 miles) of Phobos in order to get high-resolution pictures of the tiny, potato-shaped Martian moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Thoughts On Mars | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...principal social outlet for Super Bowl mania is getting together with friends to party, or at least munch, and watch the game. Some gatherings are formalized affairs, involving early invitations, official N.F.L. team bunting and other decorations purchased far in advance. Supermarkets in Knoxville, Tenn., report mountains of potato chips carted away in the days before the game; fast-food franchises put on extra help to handle the halftime hamburger crush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: THE SUPER SHOW | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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