Word: potatos
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Hurling is a national game because it is played by all Irishmen and by no one else. The game is so old that no one knows how it started; perhaps it began when two Irishmen fought with clubs for possession of a potato and their neighbors took sides. There was hurling in Ireland a thousand years ago and it has been played ever since. Until fairly recently, the whole male population of a town or a village might take part in a game. A few rules and regulations were introduced when the Gaelic Athletic Association was formed...
...Cabinet members strolled out later through the White House lobby, newshawks buttonholed Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak, the man who carries a potato for good luck. They queried him pointedly on the matter...
...Well, regardless of what you boys say, the Administration's policy has not been changed one damned bit." And the Secretary of Labor, potato in pocket, stalked out of the White House a thoroughly irritated...
...Minister is most generous with them as his sympathy goes out to the per son who has never tasted the lusciousness of an American baked potato split through the center while it is steaming hot and filled with a huge piece of fresh, sweet butter...
...Finland there has never been seen anything like those potatoes. They come in boxes, each potato wrapped separately in tissue paper, fifties and seventies, ac cording to size, fifties being the larger...