Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colleges last week jiggled a hot potato: Could they welcome Japanese students, even though loyal to the U.S., to their campuses? The man who passed them this hot potato was University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul. Sympathizing with his 300 Nisei (American-born Japanese) students, whom he had to evacuate, Dr. Sproul asked 32 inland colleges (all west of the Mississippi) to admit them. The University of Washington followed suit, but extended its request to universities east of the Mississippi...
Basin Street was conceived as a lampoon of the hot-potato pomposities com mon to the presentation of formal music...
...untouched" resources it is the United States and not the Axis which feels the pinch. We have been depending mainly on sugar as the source of the mow scarce starch, gathering only one per cent of the possible yield from corn. An attempt not so long ago to industrialize potato starch was ruined by foreign competition which our neighborly State Department encouraged. Germany, on the other hand, has stocked up with the stuff by barter, and Japan and the Dutch East Indies have plenty...
...hazy afternoon in 1937 a low-wing monoplane dropped on Croydon Aerodrome, London, in a landing which Aeroplane described as "the bounceless plop of a mashed potato." The plane had the flag of the Rising Sun painted on its white flank; it was named The Divine Wind. Its pilot, a 24-year-old wizard of endurance named Masaaki Iinuma, had just flown all the way from Tokyo (via Formosa, Indo-China, India, Iraq, Greece, Italy, France) in four days. Aeroplane, remarking that the crowd of greeters at the field nearly trampled underfoot half a dozen very small Japanese girls...
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...