Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I voted in 1932 for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic platform pledged a 25% cut in federal spending, and he campaigned on a return of authority to the people who had lost it to the Government. I went on and was a loyal Democrat. But on the mashed-potato circuit I began to talk more and more about how Government had expanded and was infringing on liberties and interfering with private enterprise. One day I came home from a speaking tour, and I said to Nancy, 'I go out there and make these speeches, which I believe...
...arrived astride their own ten-speeds, even bicycles built for two-and-a-half (the baby on the back fender). It was the freest event in the most expensive Olympics, and a sunny Sunday for a picnic in suburbia, where neighborhood residents favored hearts of palm and caviar over potato salad and baked beans...
...Social Services Director Edwin Sarsfield. The Zodiac killer, who claims in letters that he murdered 37 people in the '60s and '70s, was never caught. Sara Jane Moore tried to shoot Gerald Ford in San Francisco. The Symbionese Liberation Army was nurtured there. Dan White, the baked-potato vendor and former city supervisor, shot and killed Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in city hall. Every couple of weeks or so, someone leaps off the Golden Gate Bridge into the deep blue sea. The city suicide rate is half again as high as the nation...
Another disadvantage of the march towards progress has been the loss of favorite hangouts. One Potato, Two Potato fell victim to the wrecking ball in March and was mourned by one senior as the only "decent, somewhat respectable restaurant" in the area...
...morale of the Harvard Police Department during his five-year tenure, left his post as chief of police to take a simnilar position at Vanderbilt University. His replacement was Paul E. Johnson, a 26-year veteran of the Boston police force, who almost immediately had to handle a hot potato in charges that the force had harassed Black youths. Johnson responded to the allegations in an appearance before the Cambridge City Council...