Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Statistics v. Potato Bugs. "The major misconception of our sex-centered culture is one that would be funny if it weren't so nearly tragic. It is the idea that the measure of a man-or a woman-can be taken in terms of his or her sexual efficiency. It is easy to see how this concept might occur to a biologist. These scientists spend their lives studying lower forms of life -animals, insects and plants-and they quickly observed that the entire life cycle of a potato bug or a fruit fly is devoted to insuring the survival...
With $600 in savings, the young couple traveled south and rented a farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In that valley, Grandma bore ten children and raised the five that survived birth. There, too, she supplemented the family income by making butter and potato chips (a novelty in those times) for sale to the neighbors...
...mackerel are caught off Long Island. She sometimes ladles out such unembellished advice as "remember lamb breast and shank today" or "snap beans are a vegetable buy," and always provides basic food facts on price, quality, recipes and tastes for everyone from the meat-and-potato man to the high-living gourmet. But mushrooms are not just mushrooms in her column, they are likely to be "pixie umbrellas" or the "elf of plants," and she discovers apples "with flesh so fragrant . . . they can perfume a dining room...
Coffin Torture. For three years, Merlino, 49, and Faticati, 45, lived in cold, dirt and hunger they had never known in Naples. There were 10,000 prisoners in the camp, crowded like cattle, 40 or 50 to a room. They got only potato soup, carrots and 200 grams of bread for their daily meal. Their letters, to their families and Communist friends in Italy, to Hungarian Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, were not delivered. One day Faticati had a nervous breakdown; he screamed and cried for his four children. When the guards came, Merlino went to defend his comrade...
...Tobiki with orders to teach the natives democracy and to build them a pentagon-shaped schoolhouse. He brilliantly bungles his assignment: rather than march them glumly in formation toward their desired goal, he lets them mosey to it down their own primrose path. They wax prosperous selling sweet-potato brandy to the U.S. armed forces; they grow affectionate when allowed to build a teahouse instead of a school. There is not only joy in Tobiki, but, at the final curtain, notable satisfaction in Washington. A genial satire, the play blueprints the superiority of the human heart over the military mind...