Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life in Washington, as you represent it, is rugged for Her Majesty's ambassador, Sir Roger Makins, forced, in the name of duty, to eat lavender-pink potato salad and dance the Lambeth Walk with strange ladies. Let Sir Roger reflect that his predecessors of 20 years ago had it even rougher: no champagne or Scotch to wash the stuff down with ... At least, in this age of lavender-pink potatoes and policies, Sir Roger does not have to face the grim protocol of Prohibition, which moved the compassion of Hilaire Belloc...
...produced went to Russia and the satellites, but nothing came back in return. The agricultural program broke down, and this spring a land historically known for surpluses fell short 600,000 tons of bread grain, 100,000 tons of sugar and 125,000 tons of the indispensable potato. Restaurants took to serving boiled potatoes only to customers who traded in an equal quantity of raw ones...
Werner David went home from the Agfa plant that night to a meal of potato and carrots. Behind locked doors, he tuned his radio to West Berlin's U.S.-operated radio RIAS and heard about the Berlin protest march. It happened almost the same way at Wolfgang Fritsch's house. As he and his wife switched off the radio and went to bed, he muttered: "It's happened. It's happened." Next morning, at the Agfa plant, the uranium pits, the dockworks at Rostock, the heavy-machinery works in Magdeburg, at the center of Red Berlin...
...British ambassador, shy Sir Roger Makins, deserved special mention in dispatches from the Battle of the Red Mill. He flinched slightly when presented with a plate of lavender-pink potato salad, flinched again when a lady guest impaled him with: "You're British, aren't you? You ought to know how to do the Lambeth Walk." Afloat or ashore, England expects every man to do his duty. For the first time in a quiet but crowded life, Sir Roger Mellor Makins, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael...
...they got the last three dozen guests out by turning off the electric lights. Then they totted up the toll: 18 gallons of lobster Newburg, 450 hamburgers, eight turkeys, eight hams, a bushel of green salad, eight gallons of lavender-pink potato salad, six crocks of baked beans, eight gallons of sherbet, dozens of cases of bourbon, Scotch and gin, 120 bottles of champagne. Said Martha: "Everything came out even, except Clem Ryan." The evening had cost Millionaire Ryan something like...