Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time after time I have had it hammered into my head by you that I will have to stand trial myself in this case. You have told me that the hot potato was being passed right into...
...only a symbol: the prosecution was after the system and the man it held responsible for the system-Kilian. A contempt of court charge against Kilian (TIME, Feb. 18) was already prepared. Others were reported to be in the making, one involving conspiracy. The imperious colonel had the hot potato, and had need of a miracle...
TIME'S Cleveland correspondent wrote: "Picketing is de luxe. No walking. Pickets sit in open-front tarpaulin huts, with heat provided by salamanders. Men play cards, gossip, drink coffee. At night some hold potato and wiener roasts. Women pickets gossip and giggle...
Howard Lindsay found himself unexpectedly onstage in a new Lindsay-Grouse collaboration, State of the Union, a Broadway-bound political hot potato about how Republicans knock their heads together. Author Lindsay, who pinch-hit as an old-line GOPolitico for two performances, is used to saying his own lines; he played Father in Life with Father for 1,618 performances...
...held out a three-foot-long sweet potato, and Harry Truman gravely inspected it. He laughed at the brash jokes of a midget master of ceremonies, watched a team of husky girl dancers in pink scanties, closely followed three horse races, presented a cup to the winning jockey of "The President Truman Derby...