Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victoria Embankment, 40,000 school children in berets of maroon, green and blue swarm into their places. Peter Suffren, 6, with a row of tin medals on his chest and clutching a bottle of milk, a bag of potato chips, says: "I wish I had a princess for a girl...
Beyond anthropology the connections between Spain and Ireland are clearer. Bilbao is only 660 miles from Cork. Not only potato growers but Spanish and Irish fishermen have been rivals, sometimes friends, for centuries. The Spanish Armada was wrecked off the coast of Ireland, is blamed for the "black" Irish of the Western Isles. The Irish Duke of Wellington was made a Spanish Grandee...
...whatever the Lord told me. He told me to sell my pigs and goods and give the money to the poor, and I did. Then He called on me to fast, but He didn't say why. The day after I started in, I took a little potato soup without any grease. That learned me my lesson. I nearly died, it made me so sick. That was just the Lord punishing me for my disobedience. . . . I started this fast at the call of the Lord, and I'll not stop until He tells...
...Potato Jones and Captain Roberts having started the parade, within six days half-a-dozen freighters ran the blockade into Bilbao, if not with the official protection of Britain's Navy, at least within range of its guns...
...more to the British sympathy for Bilbao than pure altruism for a besieged city. Vitally needed for Welsh steel mills, now on 24-hour schedules as part of Britain's rearmament, is iron ore from Basque mines. And Welsh farmers have long had a private arrangement with Basque potato growers. From carefully tended fields they ship high-priced seed potatoes to Bilbao twice a year, take back in exchange mature food potatoes, grown in Spain's warm and dry climate...