Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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5Like eating a single peanut or potato chip...
...situation in Boston worsened. Two power blackouts cut off electricity for 100,000 people at the height of the storm. In some working-class neighborhoods, looting broke out. Long lines formed at the few food markets that could open, and shelves were quickly stripped bare of milk, bread, potato chips, ginger ale-almost anything edible. Not until two days after the storm, when the major highways were finally cleared, could the city be resupplied with food...
...seeing students on a regular basis. Sixteen-month-old Alexander Dunn looks forward to greeting visitors to the Master's sherry hours; although he cannot yet remember or pronounce many names, the child recognizes faces and greets everyone with "Hi, boys! Hi, girls!" He refers to sherry hours as "potato chip time," because students like to feed him munchies on request...
...forest, and house ghosts are obnoxious and troublesome. But the real threat to gnomes comes from the troll--a disgusting, hairy and unkempt Northern European dolt who gets his jollies by keeping his gnomes to the grindstones and by lighting a gnome on fire and then playing hot potato with him. Gnomes are for whom the troll yells, so to speak...
Hargrave, a Long Island vineyard that only five years ago was a 66-acre potato farm, was founded by Alex Hargrave, 31, who holds a Harvard M.A. in Chinese studies, with the help of his wife Louisa, who studied wine chemistry, and his brother Charles. The Hargraves plant only vinifera, no hybrids. Remarked Alex: "If you can grow avocados, why grow brussels sprouts?" In spite of the Hargraves' recently planted vines and inexperience, their Sauvignon blanc was given top rating among New York wines tasted recently by Wine Author Alexis Bespaloff (The Fireside Book of Wine) and Vintage Magazine...