Word: potato
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reverting to a frigid interlude comparable to what some scientists call the "little ice age" that cooled Europe from the 16th through 19th centuries. During those years Greenland's once lush fields vanished, England's productive vineyards withered, and agricultural disasters like Ireland's great potato famine came to be accepted as a natural feature of life...
...church which the St. Augustine Indians built for themselves under his supervision. To make up for lost time, he performs continuous masses, weddings and baptisms--all in Algonquian, the language spoken by the tribes of the sub-Arctic cultural area south and east of the Hudson Bay. Children eat potato chips and play tag in the aisle, baptismal water appears in a peanut butter jar, and everyone, scratching incessantly, squashes blackflies that gather at the window panes. At the wedding of the cheif's son, he and his bride sat in armchairs in front of the altar while wild dogs...
...fall in the stock market has hit brokers with all the force of the potato famine, while many middle managers, in the 40-plus age bracket and the $25,000-to-$40,000 income bracket, are among the first to be squeezed out when their companies are in trouble. A younger man, their bosses believe, can do much the same work for half...
MAINE'S WILLIAM COHEN enhanced his political stature with his impeachment vote. His own district, which includes the potato fields of Aroostook County, the timberland country of north and western Maine and the state's second and third largest cities-Democratic Lewiston and waveringly Republican Bangor-produced some bitter mail, including: "May a thousand camels relieve themselves in your drinking water." But generally his constituents seem to have been won over by his pro-impeachment arguments. Leon Smith, a Jonesport lobster dealer, used to say that he would not support Cohen if he voted for impeachment. Like many...
...least one was-Sally Kellerman, 30 pounds overweight then and always unhappy in love. "I would sit on Jack's lap and pour out my heart to him," she says. For sustenance they would go to the supermarket for some "sweeties and souries"-ice cream and potato chips-and gorge between traumas. "Jack was the funniest man in the world," Kellerman recalls, "and always available when I needed him-a true friend...