Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had the Senate labor racketeering probe recessed one afternoon last week than workmen rushed to load the same chandeliered, red-carpeted room with palms, potato chips and potables for a more friendly gathering. Following behind the food and drink came 200 G.O.P. Congressmen for a reception tendered retiring National Chairman Leonard Hall. They presented burly (6 ft. 2 in., 234 Ibs.), beaming Len Hall with a gold-plated desk set and a huge helping of kind words. But the kindest word of all that afternoon came from a noncongressional Republican who had driven over from the White House...
...danger is that while the budget is juggled as a hot potato, cuts will be an ill-considered result of no coherent policy. Foreign aid is likely to suffer most, as, unlike welfare legislation and veterans' benefits, no voter-interest group will rise in anger...
...Potato Chip. Once Mies had demonstrated that a chair's metal frame could be used in place of springs, Finland's Alvar Aalto showed that the same thing could be done with molded plywood. In the U.S., Architect Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames teamed up in 1940 to produce a molded plywood chair that shifted the emphasis to organic shape, form-fitted to the human body. Using molded plastic, Saarinen then developed the idea into his famed "womb" chair; Eames evolved a whole series, ranging from his early hard-surfaced plywood "potato chip" chair to plastic chairs which...
...master to disciple, if it is to be practiced. The real future of Zen in the U.S. depends on English-speaking Roshis-masters who have attained enlightenment. One of the most likely candidates is blond, ruddy Walter Nowick, 30, a World War II veteran, raised on a Long Island potato farm, who is now studying at Kyoto's Sokokuji Temple. Nowick rises each morning at four to meditate on a koan such...
American realism reached another early peak in dashing, snuff-snuffling Gilbert Stuart. Once, when a customer complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the master snapped: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach...