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Word: potatoe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students are tired of eating chicken, chicken and more chicken. And potato coins, spicy waffle fries, spicy curly fries, krinkle cut fries, shoestring fries, cottage fries, fried potato slices, tator tots, oven-browned potatoes and steak fries. Last week, Berry himself admitted that the menu needed "punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chickened Out | 11/10/1992 | See Source »

...biting comment exchanged over the potato counter in Stalinist Moscow is not for here. But there is humor elsewhere, not in the queazy attempts at stand-up savagery, but the politics themselves. How can you poke fun at American politics when the thing itself is so damn hilarious? Why make endless quips about that nice Mr. Quayle when one look at his squidgy visage, writhing with stupidity, outdoes anything a comedian could express. All the way through the Vice-Presidential debate I was doubled up with laughter as cliche rebounded off smirk, off slick quip, off tear-jerking'''real-life...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...students said they spelled the vice president's name incorrectly to mock his misspelling earlier this year of the word "potato...

Author: By Daria E. Lidsky, | Title: Students Start "Vote Neil" Campaign | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...three months before he would take office. . Obvious loss of voice . Doesn't attempt even one joke. Stock Phrases . "We are not coming apart at the seams..."--Four times . Can sleep at night, because we aren't afraid of nuclear war--Twice . "Servant of the people"--Twice . "Chips" (potato and computer)--Four times . "The White House is a bully pulpit"--Twice . The word "change"--13 times . Refers to Hillary--Twice Humor Attempts . Talks about cocaine--rubs nose . Makes joke about stock market reaction to possible Clinton win--swooping hand motion emphasizes point . "I have no experience running...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scorecard | 10/13/1992 | See Source »

...catsup by $40 million, making it the country's most popular condiment. The peppers are popping up in such mainstream products as Le Menu "Santa Fe style" frozen dinners and McDonald's chicken fajitas. Manufacturers are packaging chile pastas, chile jams and jellies, chile catsup, chile-spiced mustards, peanuts, potato chips and pickles. There is even a sizzling rock band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "There are very few bad things about peppers," says David DeWitt, editor of Chile Pepper, a bimonthly magazine with a circulation of 80,000. "They have virtually no calories, no cholesterol, high fiber, high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Like It Hot | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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