Word: potatos
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...bottle from white bootleggers who pick it up at $1.68 in the whites-only stores. The rest drink their troubles away at the illicit drinking parlors of "shebeen queens." wealthy black matrons who serve a throat-scalding, home-distilled brew made by boiling together potato peelings, berries and sometimes a dash of methylated spirits...
...exits are either barricaded or booby-trapped. A rumor of gas causes mass hysteria. A simple cough is like a thunderbolt that brings on a rain of German grenades. A classical pianist plays a melancholy tune on his sweet-potato pipe and quotes Dante's Inferno as his mind ebbs away "in the lake's foul bottom, plunged in dung"-a grim elegy that unites all their fates. A sentient lover (Tadeusz Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely...
...List. Son of a Bridgehampton, Long Island, potato farmer, Yastrzemski started swinging a baseball bat at three. At seven, he was fielding fungos hit by his father, a former semipro ballplayer...
Lunch was the high point of the busy day for the kids, and they devoured 2400 hot dogs, 225 dozen rolls, 117 dozen ice cream bars, 87 pounds of potato chips, and 15 tanks of soda. The whole P.B.H. cabinet was on hand to serve the 1200 lunches in a little over an hour and 15 minutes...
...little five-year-old, when asked what he liked best in the whole day, thought for a moment and said, "the potato chips...