Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Feb. 24], you neglected to mention the great pulse of public opinion. When the Star and Times were "bedridden" it was tough not to see what Li'l Abner was doing. However, nine out of ten people then and now would drop the Star like a hot potato if any other kind of daily sheet would only come to town. The people's prayer is: please, God, send one, so we can have both sides of an issue and not have just what one paper likes shoved into our mental stomach. If Marshall Field, Hearst, McCormick...
They were the U.S. oil industry, the lumber industry; the coal interests, the copper interests; the tobacco growers, the potato growers; the manufacturers of jewelry, and of fishing tackle. None of them had a complete understanding of all the ramifications of the problems they discussed. But most of them were certain that their industries faced ruin if the U.S. continued to lower its tariff walls...
...stable of 17 fighters, couldn't understand everybody's worries. Said he: "I've never been beaten so that I felt it more than a day or two. . . . My head has never hurt . . . I'm still all there." His dress was sharp, his nose potato-shaped, his ears cauliflowered. And he still intended to quit. Said he: "Maybe one more fight in Mexico City next month, then I'm gonna check...
...National Potato Contest (Tues. 12:30 p.m., Mutual). Three governors compete in a potato peeling and baking contest. Judges: Mrs. Harry S. Truman, General George C. Marshall...
...unpolitical artist. This I did. . . . I've never conducted in a conquered country. I didn't want to follow tanks into other people's countries. . . . Where was the music of Beethoven more needed than in Himmler's Germany? . . . I am no more guilty than a potato dealer who continued to sell potatoes in the Third Reich...