Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...
...econimies on polities. Here, the department has shown a lag that can the traced to the overall interest of the faculty in other phases of the work plus the disinclination of any University to apoint left-wingers. At a time when control of the economy is the hottest potato around, it is unfortunate that only one course deals with the political approach to the issue, and then only partially. A part of the answer may lie in the left-wing leanings that seem to pervade the thinking of many political economists. The fact remains that there are no thoroughly left...
...conference with Attorney General Tom C. Clark. If Tom Clark had held up the sale with the idea of the Government operating the lines till the coal strike was over, he gave no hint. With all the lobbying going on, he might only have intended to toss the hot potato into the new Congress...
...eleven men for whom this night held no dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...
...hard fact was that the Government had hot-potatoed the labor problem from one man to another, somehow hoping that tossing it about would cool it. But the potato was finally back in Mr. King's hand, and it was still sizzling...