Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rear guard, when suddenly a new wave of Reds jumped the road, recapturing the ambush area and cutting off the rear guard. Bucking their way through in the darkness, the tanks reached the center of the ambush area, with hundreds of suicidal Viet Minh swarming aboard with potato-masher stick grenades and plastic explosive charges. Some Viet Minh threw themselves under the grinding treads with armfuls of explosives. Six armored halftracks were destroyed and their crews slaughtered...
...valley near Henley-on-Thames. Gradually, the nature he saw around him drew him off on another track. His new style set out to blend geometric designs with the more amorphous shapes of reality-or, as he once expressed it, "a combination of a crystal and a potato, with neither predominating too much...
Today Piper's paintings contain nearly equal parts of the abstract crystal and the amorphous potato: precise landscapes splashed with blocks of colors that happen to interest him. When Piper finds a combination he likes, he uses it again & again. He continues to look for new combinations and new techniques. His spare time lately has been spent with wax-crayon colors and in floating paint on water in a bathtub, then lifting off the bright swirling patterns on to a piece of paper. He will have a Manhattan show next year, and is "fiddling around" between. themes...
...result is a wonderful piece of Americana, full of the smell of beer and coal smoke-and of the potato soup on which Ma fed her brood, sometimes for weeks on end, when Pa was looking for a job or "fighting the interests" during one of the dozens of strikes in which he was privileged to take part. Pa was a formidable and handsome man-tall, erect, curly-haired and with a straight right capable of breaking a man's jaw. Ma was handsome and formidable too-once she hit a slum bully over the head with a ball...
Johnson's chain has lengthened measurably since war's end. In the past six years he has added 118 restaurants. Of the total, he owns 145; the rest he licenses out and sells the owners their supplies: toothpicks, napkins, hot dogs, ice cream, syrups, potato chips, tea balls, matches and about 700 other items. He also owns nine eastern steakhouses, known as Red Coach Grills, and a wholesale business which sells such local specialities as baked beans and brown bread to retailers in the six New England states...