Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they enthusiastically pitch in to build them a proper teahouse. To do so, it is necessary to scrounge and improvise, and soon Captain Fisby, who is weak on Army directives but strong on old-fashioned initiative, finds himself supervising a complex business combine. His once-sleepy village distills sweet-potato brandy, manufactures salt, china and wooden sandals, sponsors wrestling matches, sets up a teahouse with an international menu including everything from snapping turtles to borsch-and all because of First Flower and Lotus Blossom...
...similar bargain existed two years ago, but the Radcliffe losers had wrapped potato sacks above their regular shirts. The unveiling was a disappointment, it was rumored...
...years ago, the girls promised to give their shirts to the men if they lost. When the victorious Crimson team claimed its reward, the athletes found themselves donning potato sacks the girls had draped around their shirts...
...compartments are too shallow. My salad was placed in one compartment and ended up in three. The potato spewed over into the central milk-glass division, and the gravy required a skilled juggling act to keep it from flowing over the side. Also there was insufficient height in the ridges to aid in getting the last mouthfuls of applesauce on the spoon (the same will certainly hold true for peas, stewed tomatoes...
...shoes on indoors and out. Smoothly tanned or well-made-up stock-ingless legs are customary in the spring . . . Sunbathing in public, lounging on steps, sprawling on the grass--these aren't Good Ideas . . . Eat where people don't mind your eating. In the far reaches of the library, potato chips sound like static on a 1932 radio . . . Classes begin at seven past the hour; lectures are not like continuous movies, so don't come into a lecture in the middle . . . Radcliffe in the spring is lovely . . . But the Radcliffe Yard is not Coney Island . . . Radcliffe girls ought to look...