Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potato famine provided a dramatic opportunity for the first suggestion. The scientists offered the Indians fertilizer, bug killer and a better strain of potato seed. The "medicines for the soil," as Cruz desc-ibed them, grew potatoes four to eight times bigger than Vicos had been producing. "Kcmi alii, kemi alii," said Cruz-''Very good, very good...
...genuine German Schloss, complete with park and pond, now owned by the proud potato-peel tycoons of Thedestrasse...
...Hamburg's grey Thedestrasse, the prospect of ever getting a proper place to play seemed just about hopeless. Then, one day in 1950, Teacher Walter Pareik spotted an ad in a local paper: a certain farmer was offering to pay 2.20 Deutsche Marks (52?) for no Ibs. of potato peels for hog feed. If one farmer was willing to spend that kind of money, reasoned Teacher Pareik, why not others? Perhaps the Thedestrasse high school should go into business...
Since then, every student at the school has been involved in Aktion Kartoffel-schale (Operation Potato Pee1). Each night they collected peels from their homes and from restaurants; each morning they lugged them to school to be weighed. For every 5.5 Ibs., a student would get one point, and one student earned as many as 250 points in the course of six months. Finally, the students had enough in the kitty (11,000 DM) to make a down payment on a new playground...
...adventures make good beginnings for classroom discussions of religious truths. The booklets may well guide as many parents as children, showing Daddy and Mother coping wisely with such family crises as Mike's TV-induced nightmares and Tish's embezzlement of 15?. When Mike discovers a sprouting potato in the kitchen, his mother explains to him: " 'A seed grows into a plant like the plant the seed comes from.' 'Yes, but why?' asked Mike. 'That's the way the world is, Mike. It is God's world...