Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel will also surrender roughly 30 sq. mi. of Syrian territory captured during the Six-Day War of 1967, including Quneitra and the villages of Rafid and Butmiya. Some of this land behind the "purple line" (named for its usual color on Israeli military maps) had been planted hi potato fields and apple orchards. The surrender of the territory marks the first time that Israel has ever been persuaded to give up land worked by its settlers...
Juan Beniquez started it off with a chopper to third that Danny Thompson couldn't handle. Cecil Cooper lined a solid single to center, and Dwight Evans followed with another infield hit to load the bases for Carl Yastrzemski. The potato farmer hit a long sacrifice fly, easily scoring Beniquez, but center fielder Steve Brye made the mistake of throwing the ball into third behind the speedy Cooper, allowing Evans to advance to second...
...woods. The plants looked to be five or six feet high. There was what later looked like a laundry bag full of grass from the farm somewhere around. Three or four joints were always circling among fifteen people, so one passed every five seconds. There was potato salad, lasagna, big loaves of bread, a huge salad, cases of beer, coca-cola, and other things proper to a feast. More people stopped...
...issues on which the subcommittees will concentrate reflect a reluctance to handle any "hot potato" issues that would make for any real changes in the University. Only two of the six subcommittees will touch on structural questions...
...pesos for a full-course meal. I chose the cheapest item on the list, a perro caliente (Spanish for "hot dog"), which went for seven pesos. Up in the Indian Quarter seven pesos would have bought me soup, a piece of chicken, rice, and chuna, a type of dried potato. In a few minutes the waitress, dressed in a tight yellow uniform, placed a five-inch long, grease-bathed hot dog in front of me. I didn't even get a roll...