Word: spuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrying picks, mattocks and hoes, some 3,000 peasants poured into Marigliano's marketplace Monday morning for Operazione Taratufo (Operation Spud), as the Communists called it. Many waved crude signs denouncing the Italian government and the European Common Market. Communist agitators in the crowd also put the blame on U.S. President Eisenhower (on the ungrounded thesis that U.S. wheat shipments for needy Italian children had undermined the potato market). Actually, low prices were the result of a local surplus, panicky farmers' hasty dumping on the market, and above all, the tight squeeze of the Camorra, the middlemen-racketeers...
...paper's founder, his colleague J. B. Martinez wrote an editorial in the paper's two-page Spanish section, bewailing the defeat of the federal school-aid bill. Third editorial, a scornful attack on parking meters, was written by a local poet and sometime newsman named Spud Johnson, who runs a private, one-page domain called "The Horse Fly" (subtitle: "Smallest & Most Inadequate Newspaper Ever Published...
...Spud's voice grew thick with nostalgia as he sang...
...meals, and no nonsense about voluntary privation. The large number of checks and circles against each student's name attest the hearty servings and frequent refills. Next to beer the favorite was potatoes. Well before the Irish immigration of 1715, Harvard men well knew the filling quality of the spud...
...couple of correspondents were green hands at the front. They saw the Communists hold fast to Spud Hill despite terrific bombardment, the 7th's men repulsed, the stretcher-bearers bringing down the casualties (three killed, 61 wounded, of whom many were stunned or scratched and returned to duty the next day). Their report home made Operation Smack seem like a staged show, bloody and purposeless. In Washington, Michigan's Republican Congressman Clare Hoffman, never one to shun a headline, sounded off loudly. The Army, he trumpeted, must explain "whether these invited guests were witnessing a spectacle similar...