Word: spud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lind entered New York Harbor on a paddle-wheel steamer in 1850, P.T. Barnum went out in a rowboat to greet her, carrying a spray of red roses in his arms. She was a plain young woman of 29, hair parted in the middle. Her nose was a Nordic spud. She had a wide mouth, and she wore no cosmetics. But she was the most celebrated operatic soprano in the world, and a few days later a man bid $225 to buy the first ticket to her first concert in America...
Never noted for glamor, the humble potato has lost so much of its popularity with diet-conscious Americans that per capita spud consumption in the U.S. today is little more than half what it was 50 years ago. Nonetheless, at New York's Mercantile Exchange last week some of the most sophisticated speculators in U.S. business were in a lather over the future of the potato and betting millions of dollars on what it will cost by mid-May. Seldom has the U.S. commodity market seen so wide and adamant a split between bulls and bears...