Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives in a world of blue leather engagement books, French beds, alabaster lamps and gold pillboxes. But she finds it a sterile life, and when a brigadier general comes along she follows him back to his garlicky East Side origins. In an atmosphere of cracked oilcloth, leaky sinks and potato pancakes, she discovers the simplicity and goodness that is missing in her own world...
...bountiful crop" did not come up to last year's-the potato harvest was down by 10%, sugar beets were down 14%, and wheat, most important of all, was off 16%. Yet the Winnipeg Tribune could say: "Even momentary comparison of our lot [with Europe's] makes us seem as rich as Croesus: it is a time both to give thanks and to share...
...Said Peru's slim Foreign Minister Enrique Garcia Sayan: "He has gone far beyond the needs of diplomatic good taste." Flanked by Armour and Donnelly, Marshall paid a visit to Quitandinha's Suite 400, the rooms of Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia. The Argentines served beer, whiskey, potato chips, but the abstemious Marshall took nothing. When he left, an Argentine said: "The conference is all fixed...
...Meat & Potatoes. He spent one semester cutting classes at the University of Southern California and dropped out. He gave Florida's tennis-happy Rollins College, which lured him with a scholarship, the same short shrift. He lasted exactly three hours on a potato-sacking job in a San Bernardino (Calif.) grocery store; now he has an elusive connection with a Los Angeles meat-packing firm, but never really works at it. Except for 40 months in the Coast Guard, he has never really worked at anything but tennis...
Meanwhile, from Germany itself last week came a news picture showing Germans gathering up potatoes left over by a potato-digging machine (see cut). That picture epitomized the current waste of Europe's most productive workers; the Marshall approach could not work until such Germans were making agricultural machines instead of gleaning potatoes...