Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student flashes the familiar gray card impatiently, as he passes the cash register. The delicate odors of apple pie a la mode, blended with hamburgers and some unknown form of potato, fuse together . . . . Monday, deep-dish apple-pie; Tuesday, apple-pie squares; Wednesday, apple-pie a la mode; Thursday...
Something new, everyone take note: potato stuffing coupled with hamburger patties. Potato . . . guaranteed to appear throughout the week . . . mashed, fried, Frenched, hashed, boiled, baked, stuffed. Variety is spice...
When asked to comment upon the quality of the food served, the young man, who asked to remain anonymous, replied, "Well, they serve milk all the time." After a moment's thought, he added, "And mostly serve potato chips...
House Speaker Sam Rayburn fielded this supposed hot potato with the calm of an old pro outfielder gathering in a lazy fly. Said Mr. Sam, with Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills at his elbow: "We are in accord with the President's suggestion that there be no decrease in existing taxes this year." Mills promptly got Ike's proposal reported out of his committee intact...
...switcher," who puts quality butter (60? a lb.) in the oleo box (30? a lb.). Another switcher trick: she partially empties a potato-chip tin, hides meat and other items in the bottom...