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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...
...were coming into production. No less than 85 drilling rigs were punching the Alberta earth in search of new oil pockets ; but for the steel shortage, there would be twice as many. Also at work were 65 crews with seismographs and gravitometers, picking likely spots for the drillers to "spud in." In 1949, bills for oil exploration would top $20 million...
...attorney asked if she had recognized anyone. "Yes," she said, "William Spud Howell." Spud just smiled. But when Amy told how Big Duck got shot she went to pieces. She yelled, "Oh Lawdy, Oh murder. They killed him." She got down on her knees, screamed, "I see 'em. I see 'em. Oh Lord-why did they murder him?" A lot of people in the audience couldn't help laughing...