Word: breads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Offensively, it was a rather strange game for the varsity. Its "bread and butter" plays--the power plays over tackle and the "dives" into the middle of the opposing line--brought very little yardage; and time and again in crucial situations all seemed to depend on the ability of quarterback Charlie Ravenel to come up with a tricky maneuvre which Princeton would not expect...
Plainly Personal. In part, the Democratic wins followed the tradition favoring the party out of White House power in off-year elections. But even more, the 1958 election was based on bread-and-butter issues and on personalities. In state after state, voters showed themselves willing to split their tickets to elect the most attractive candidates, regardless of party. Rockefeller's win was plainly personal-and so was Knowland's defeat...
...vote for either irreproachable dullness or irresponsible dash. In the end, daughter goes off for a before-the-wedding whirl with her fermented father-presumably as a way of eating her cake and having it, too, or of becoming so well fed with cake as to want only bread and cheese thereafter...
SANDWICH WAR is over between transatlantic airlines trying to win economy passengers' hearts through stomachs. Lines that were getting around no-free-meal rule by serving fancy, meal-size sandwiches (TIME, April 21, May 5) agreed to serve same cold-buffet menu: meat, salad, cheese, bread, beverage...
Shortly after Oklahoma had made Rodgers and Hammerstein the best-known combination since bread and butter, Mr. Hammerstein is said to have taken a large ad in Variety, the theatrical trade paper. It gave a long list of the flops with which he had been connected, and under these the words, "I've done it before and I can do it again...