Word: potatodom
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...grandchildren: "Rabbit wonders how the Dalai Lama is doing, after all that exile. Do you still believe in God, if people keep telling you you are God?" The Dalai Lama has been in the news, and Rabbit, force-feeding himself at the tube, has become through sheer couch-potatodom a current-events buff. But the Tibetan religious leader continues to interest Rabbit, who later, in the hospital after an angioplasty on his clogged arteries, tries to imagine life after his death and fails. He cannot shake the impression that his hometown "and all the world beyond are just frills...
...uncle, a professor of plant pathology at Pennsylvania State University from 1917 to 1940, who, for his successful efforts in encouraging farmers to grow potatoes in the hard Pennsylvania soil, was known variously as "the Potato Wizard of Pennsylvania," the "Knute Rockne of Spudland" and the "Billy Sunday of Potatodom"; of cancer; in Bellefonte...
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