Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propaganda potato had been tossed to Secretary of State Acheson; it was either keep it and get burned, or toss it back. He cupped it gingerly in his hands, and heaved it back. Twenty-two Soviet bloc citizens, including top Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, had applied to visit the U.S. They would be chief exhibits at a "cultural and scientific conference for world peace" this week in Manhattan...
...Potato. On the final day, there was a minor to-do over a proposed report on religious liberties. Protesting against "the insidious pattern by which Communist and other totalitarian regimes are seeking to force the church into a position of subservience," the report also contained a surprise package. This was a call "for Protestants and Roman Catholics at the highest level of leadership" to join forces against the anti-church methods used by Communists...
...delegates shouted down Dawson's amendment, but by then it was too late. The potato was too hot to handle in the closing minutes of the conference, and the whole report was referred to the Federal Council of Churches' executive committee for further consideration. Then the delegates hurried home, able to report to their churches that, at least among themselves, they had kept the peace...
This pebble is as big as an Idaho potato, and one of the finest ever brought to light; A party of University geologists found it this summer while digging in eastern France...
Imported antiSemitism! cried Berlin's U.S.-licensed Tagesspiegel. It was protesting against the expensively produced British movie Oliver Twist, J. Ar thur Rank's cinematic hot potato which the protests of Jewish groups had kept from U.S. screens (TIME, Oct. 4). A short time later, Berliners themselves protested in more destructive fashion at the movie's faithful portrait of Charles Dickens' "Jew Fagin," fence and brutal master of a gang of young thieves...