Word: potatos
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...Sweet potato stems and leaves, reported Department of Agriculture researchers at Beltsville, Md., also produced two antibiotics. One worked against Staphylococcus aureus, the germ that causes boils; the other against fungi that damage plants. In the skins and pulps of ripe bananas, there were two more: one worked against Tinea trychophytina, the fungus that causes athlete's foot, the other against the fungus that makes tomato plants wilt...
...love affair of Ann and Robert had mighty little spirit and even less romance old Tom Wilcher thought. After they were married, Robert returned to the fields phlegmatically modernizing the farm, and Ann calmly took up her chores, all as romantic as a baked potato. And naturally they drifted apart...
...propaganda potato had been tossed to Secretary of State Acheson; it was either keep it and get burned, or toss it back. He cupped it gingerly in his hands, and heaved it back. Twenty-two Soviet bloc citizens, including top Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, had applied to visit the U.S. They would be chief exhibits at a "cultural and scientific conference for world peace" this week in Manhattan...
Having plenty of the vegetable but lacking cash (so they cannily said), the villagers threatened to pay their taxes in potatoes. Indignantly the local government posted notices that it would not receive potatoes. Sniffing a story, a newspaperman nosed in from nearby Limoges. As he stopped to photograph the potato notices he saw another poster: "Workers Wanted for the Uranium Fields...
...delegates shouted down Dawson's amendment, but by then it was too late. The potato was too hot to handle in the closing minutes of the conference, and the whole report was referred to the Federal Council of Churches' executive committee for further consideration. Then the delegates hurried home, able to report to their churches that, at least among themselves, they had kept the peace...