Word: potato
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Trade Commission put the blame elsewhere in 1972, when it found that monopoly power in 13 food industries had cost consumers $2.1 billion. And with just a little common sense, anyone could figure out that Proctor and Gamble didn't manufacture Pringles potato chips because hundreds of people wrote in demanding them, but because they have a shelf life of a year, and can be shipped over long distances and bring more money into P & G's coffers...
...idea in the first place. People laughed and scoffed, but Brown seems to have survived the flip-flop with votes to spare. The latest survey shows him 25 points ahead of his lackluster Republican opponent, State Attorney General Evelle Younger, whose campaign style is unkindly compared to a mashed-potato sandwich...
...potterized poultry with a golden hammer. In Kweilin's Li River Hotel, the aesthetic highlight is a bowl of bouillon on which float three yellow-eyed ducklings made of egg white. The culinary triumph is a sweet-and-sour fresh-water mandarin fish, confected with ham, onion, potato, sausage, mushroom and ginger. It is sculptured to resemble a squirrel, hence the dish is announced in advance by one interpreter as "tree rat," provoking preprandial nausea among several F.F.s...
...prevails on these military reservations. At Clark an Olympic-size pool, 18-hole golf course, three movie theaters and 14 base exchange stores serve the 20,000 people who live there. Until U.S. and Philippine authorities cracked down this year, too much of the tax-free stereo equipment, perfume, potato chips and liquor sold at the exchange stores ended up on the local black market...
Paul agreed that the law would probably stay in effect this year only, but for a different reason: "It was a poor idea, a hot potato; and they won't do it again...