Word: potato
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bronze bust of John Keats-valued at $10,000-was stolen from Houghton Library Monday afternoon. Police have located neither the bust nor the thieves but a "potato man" left on the bust's pedestal has persuaded them that the theft "may have been no more than a student prank...
...another era, such a prospect would have suggested almost unimaginable disaster, something like Ireland's potato famine of 1846-48. Veterans of the Depression's Dust Bowl might understand. But for other Americans, if the elements should conspire to bring on the corn blight, the effect would be all but unnoticed-at least for a time. U.S. farmers have increasingly turned to feeding wheat and soy or cotton seed to their cattle and hogs. Eventually, though, a scarcity of feed corn would raise its price, and the prices of other feeds would rise with it, thus increasing...
Between radio jobs, there are respites of sorts. Gibson spends a year as a phony invalid in a convalescent home where he enthusiastically joins the shut-in life. "Until you've potato-raced against a congenital one-legged man in a sack you haven't potato-raced," he boasts after an invalid decathlon...
...such medically proved methods as minor surgery, application of caustics, localized freezing or electrocautery. But many laymen have been equally successful with an assortment of magical home remedies. There is documentary evidence that warts have disappeared after being touched with a copper penny or a slice of raw potato, which is then buried during a full moon. Some sufferers insist that they have found relief in Tom Sawyer's prescription for "spunk water" (rain from a tree stump in the woods). Still others have employed the services of some old women in the hills of northeastern Kentucky...
...mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican Senator (D), who falls back, causing spoon (E) to toss surplus potato (F)−Joe Di-Maggio (G) swings, causing revolving mechanism (H) to set off leftover 4th of July rocket (I) which hits dice box (J), causing it to throw a natural−District Attorney (K) runs to investigate gambling, causing rope (L) to pull shirt (M) off taxpayer's back...