Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...root of all evil, says the Bible, is the love of money. The root of most evil, says Dr. Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, topflight British geneticist, is the potato...
Presiding last week in Birmingham at a meeting of the learned British Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Salaman dragged the potato right out where the world could see it in all its iniquity. "An easily grown, cheaply produced, substantially efficient and pleasantly tasting food," Britain's top potato authority told his fellow scientist's, "can, under certain political and economical conditions, fatally menace the social well-being of the people who adopt...
...impressive sight. The enemy's uniform was a shapeless affair of sleazy green cloth, with string pockets crudely sewed onto it to hold camouflage of leaves or branches. At his side lay a 7.62-mm. Russian rifle, roughly similar to the U.S. Springfield; he had a Russian potato-masher hand grenade stuck in his belt; his conical Russian helmet lay in the ditch beside his rifle. The dead man's pack contained a glob of soggy rice, freshly cooked and wrapped in a dirty blue cloth, a shovel, a tin cup and a spoon; he had no first...
...Superintendent set about investigating 50 overweight women on the city's welfare rolls, who get an extra $3.30 every fortnight to buy nonfattening foods, discovered they had made no progress whatever in losing weight. "Maybe in this weather," he conjectured, "they can't resist ice cream and potato salad...
...altogether-any more than the radio, the electric light and the pop-up toaster. Ten years ago, the Nazis accused British flyers of dropping potato bugs on German potato fields...