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Word: breads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...42nd children's story, The Butter Battle Book (Random House; 48 pages; $6.95). An arms-race "preachment," as he calls it, the tale features no grinches, just a confrontational competition between average, everyday Yooks and Zooks who are suspicious of each other because the former prefer eating bread with the butter facing up while the latter like their butter facing down. The Yooks and Zooks devise bigger and more outrageous war machines, until each holds a Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo "filled with mysterious Moo-Lacka-Moo" capable of blowing the other to Sala-ma-goo. Says Geisel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...that much that separates the only two real candidates. Unlike 1968 and 1972, no single issue holds sway, and ideology is now a word associated with the Republicans. Even Mondale, his candidacy disappearing like water through a sieve, would concede that he and Hart differ only superficially on the bread and butter issues...

Author: By Amy E. Pressman, | Title: Gary Hart | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...invited." McLaughlin added, referring to his squad's 89-86 last-minute loss to the highly touted Blue Devils a month ago "We finished second in our league but beat the champion twice. We've got the best player in our league (in Joe Carrabino) and we set a bread new NCAA foul shooting record...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Harvard Awaits Post-Season Invitations to NIT Tourney | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

When the shooting stopped, West Beirut was under the full control of Muslim militiamen for the first time in more than a year. As people scurried to stock up on bread and bottled water in case the fighting flared up again, they could see how much damage had been done. Gaping holes riddled the upper floors of apartment buildings, snapped trees littered the streets, and burned-out cars still smoldered on nearly every block. Shattered glass and chunks of masonry lay everywhere. At the American University Hospital, doctors raced to make room for the rush of wounded, while the morgues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: All Hell Breaking Loose | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...food, in practice the Government allows small levels if the cost of eliminating the cancer-causing substance is too high. The difficulty is weighing possible future lives lost against immediate economic cost. Consumers who fear any EDB at all can return to an old but forsaken faithful: plain white bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Muffin-Mix Scare | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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