Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small groups, clinging together for support during blows, from which come murmurs . . . "Potato, Idaho . . . Sunstroke, Texas . . . Are there Indians in Wyoming? . . . It goes down to 20 below in Minnesota . . . Yes and they have tornadoes in Kansas! . . . There isn't a man left between the Alleghenies and the Rockies anyway...
...drought will probably cost John Stiles and his Maryland neighbors: 10 to 25% in milk, 37% in corn, 50% in late vegetables. In Virginia the potato crop was hit; in Delaware the dry spell took toll of tomatoes, limas, string beans, peaches. Total estimated crop damage in states bordering Washington, D.C.: $50 million...
...Austria, whose proposal for a U.S. Army battalion of Austrian nationals was finally nixed by both the Army and the State Department, was finally nixed by the Army as a soldier. Aliens must be approved before they can be inducted; the Army simply labeled the handsome young hot potato unacceptable, without going into details...
...Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert; their stomachs swelled with potato gas. By day they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children sneaked under the threshing machines, voraciously foraged for rye seeds. When the empty barrels of potato schnaps came back to the farm...
...Keats was once a potato factor and, while delivering a ton of potatoes, was attacked by a ferocious pet pomeranian...