Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gene Howe had been bent on such Lone Star independence ever since he fled from the towering reputation of his famous publishing father, Old Ed Howe, Kansas' "Sage of Potato Hill." When Gene was 15, sharp-penned Old Ed wrote: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Gene struck west, and after six years as a reporter, came back and soon took over the Atchison Globe...
When barley and potato prices rose during and after World War II, the poteen industry languished. In 1948, Waters and some 60 remaining inhabitants of Inishmurray petitioned the Irish government for new land, were moved to Sligo. There King Michael, a huge figure in homespun tweeds, with a sweeping mustache, continued to hold court among those of his subjects who revisited the island every summer, ostensibly to graze cattle, but actually, it was said, to engage in their traditional industry. In Sligo last week, at the age of 80, Michael Waters died. His eldest son Michael, known to the islanders...
...night, the city lay black, empty and desolate in the moonlight. The crack of small-arms fire rang incessantly through the streets, much of it directed at jeep thieves who worked steadily every night. Seoul's Capitol Club, where,, two weeks ago a plate of potato chips had sold for $2.50, was dark and deserted. In its stead, a few blocks away, stood Seoul's last-ditch nightspot, the Consolation Club, which advertised "Fifty Beautiful Women Fifty." Inside, a dozen odd bedraggled beauties gyrated round a scarred dance floor, their swirling Korean skirts revealing singularly unattractive expanses...
...come through a boyhood in Manhattan's slums, started at the bottom of General Electric's ladder as an office boy and made his way to its $275,000-a-year top. Thanks to two famous Washington scraps of World War II, he knew a governmental hot potato before he caught...
...reaches a large audience and is visible as well as vocal. "The pitchman's spiel is not as important as his hands," says 36-year-old Harold Kaye. "He sells in proportion to how skillful he is at manipulating the worker (see glossary). Whether it's a potato peeler or a card trick-he has to make it look easy...