Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paintings under the best conditions for resale or ransom, last week's pair were bunglers. They cut some canvases off their support stretchers, a hasty amateur act that enables the painting to be rolled up but severely damages it by cropping and cracks the old dry paint like a potato crisp when it is rolled, thus causing big problems of restoration. (When another Vermeer, The Letter, was stolen in Brussels in 1971, the thief not only rolled it up but sat on it in the back of a taxi, ruining...
...venture intends to buy virtually all its raw materials from Soviet producers, no small order in a country where many food products are rationed and the term quality control is not in the lexicon. The Moscow managers have imported potato and cucumber seeds from the Netherlands and have trained Soviet farmers to harvest and pack the produce without bruising it. They have taught Soviet cattle farmers that they can raise leaner beef by castrating their cattle a month later than usual and slaughtering them a month earlier. To maintain food standards and keep the supply flowing, the company has built...
That political caution was a major reason for the tankless Reforger maneuvers. "We have always been reluctant to run over people's potato patches, and we have always tried to be polite," says Saint, the U.S. Army commander. "But they don't design 60-ton tanks to be polite...