Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional rummage sale is a backyard affair at which the customers gather to buy a neighbor's castoff items -ranging from rusty potato peelers to used refrigerators-at castoff prices. In the past few years, however, the sales have grown too big for the one-family garage; they have moved into farm fields, drive-in theaters, convention halls and even Pasadena's famous Rose Bowl. A far cry from the old neighborhood affairs, which were largely stocked with merchandise from family attics, the new supersales have become major outlets for professional merchants anxious to dispose of leftover goods...
Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party's deputy leader, was having a bowl of potato soup in the Reichstag dining room when he was told that the Kaiser had abdicated and that Karl Liebknecht, the left-wing firebrand, was about to proclaim Germany a Soviet republic. To head him off, Scheidemann hurried to a balcony and shouted to the crowd below: "Workers and soldiers. The cursed war is at an end. The Emperor has abdicated . . . Long live the German Republic!" That night, over a secret line from GHQ in Belgium, came a message for the Socialist leaders from...
Like his show, the tall Swedish-American with the potato nose and ice-bag hat jets to and fro between Los Angeles, Stockholm, London. In New York his studio is appropriately gargantuan, consisting of two connected five-story warehouses with an elevator so large that Oldenburg is proposing to furnish it as his living room. He has become, in effect, his own museum: a traveling exhibit, documented and catalogued and spewing out work with minatory gusto...
...Dallas Cowboys' Roger Staubach turns out to be as fast with a theological hot potato as he is with a football. At a post-Super Bowl press conference Roger was expatiating on his Christian principles when a reporter asked him if he thought there were zone defenses "up there." Staubach: "From what I understand, every pass is a touchdown up there." Reporter: "If you're a defensive back, every pass wouldn't be a touchdown." Staubach: "They don't have any defensive backs up there...
...just experienced a losing season, his fourth 23-2 loss in as many years to the "Breakfast Table Daily" gang from Cambridge, and the sinking realization that the Colonel's potato salad had come complete with a marching battalion of tiny black ants...