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Word: potatoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great searchlights toward the ground to warm themselves in their artificial sunlight. The desert was bitter cold, and no one seemed to have enough clothing, except, perhaps, veteran Atom-Bomb Watcher Leonard. He was encased in layers of woolens. wearing a cowboy hat with a brim curled like a potato chip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...costume adventure that may, in a generation or two, produce a race of moviegoers with their eyes popped out on stalks. The picture offers: 1) a full-dress Irish hunt in full cry after a fox; 2) a formal ball in an Irish country house; 3) the great Irish potato famine of the 18405; 4) the Great Trek of the Boers from Cape Town to the fertile valleys of the interior; 5) the war dance of 3,000 Zulus and their attack on a wagon ring; 6) a savage fight between two men armed with bullwhips; 7) a cloudburst, during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...conical straw hats and straw raincoats lounged by their carriages, inspecting their bare toes as they waited to take Formosan families on New Year's calls. A soft fog ringed the lush, green hills, throwing a grey blanket over the palms, the camphor trees and the sweet-potato patches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Decision & Danger | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Video Theater. Host James Mason looks pained about it, but pluckily mentions Lux; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Adolphe Menjou smack their lips respectively over Rheingold and Schaefer beers; Jon Hall goes into ecstasies over Jay's potato chips; and Loretta Young apparently keeps a box of Tide on her grand piano. There are only a few holdouts, notably Sid Caesar who sticks strictly to his funny business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Death of the Salesman? | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...Chips. "Bar BQ" potato chips coated with a spicy tomato-paste sauce have been put on the market by Frito of New York, Inc. and the Lay Potato Chip Co., Atlanta. Price: 29? for a 3½-oz. package. For quick snacks, George A. Hormel & Co. has put on sale precooked pieces of ham wrapped in egg and breadcrumb mix and fastened on a stick. Price: 59? for a box of eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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