Word: spuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody, apparently, remembered Churchill's sage advice as the operational order was drawn for a routine, company-size raid by the U.S. 7th Division on the Korean front near Chorwon. The focus of attack was a knob called Spud Hill, in the T-Bone mountain area. Air and artillery were to plaster the enemy position, then tank-supported infantry was to move up, grab prisoners, finish destroying Communist bunkers and tunnels. Code word: Operation Smack...
Scoring once in the first period, twice in the second, and adding an insurance goal in the last quarter, the Jumbos dominated the field. Captain Al Bennett scored twice and set up Spud Tomasso for the other two goals. The Crimson's goal, coming early in the second quarter to tie up the score, was engineered by sophomore center forward Juan Rodriguez...
...fancy that pulpy, parsnippy root, which is no kin to the conelike epicurean artichoke (Cynara scolymus), claim that the Jerusalem artichoke tastes best after it has been frozen m the ground. Most of society will doubtless remain content to leave it there, and take a chance with the subversive spud...
...same time, brokers in a dozen U.S. cities had been importing up to 5,000,000 bushels of potatoes from the spud-rich Canadian farmlands in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The Canadian growers were gleefully doing their biggest export business in years. Even after U.S. Customs collected 37½? duty on every 100-lb. sack for the first million bushels of table potatoes and the first 2.5 million of seed potatoes and twice as much duty on all subsequent potatoes, the Canadian spuds were cheaper than the homegrown subsidized ones...