Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University students will help stock a Christmas ship destined for Scotland as all major dining halls, with the exception of the Medical School refectory, strike butter and wheat products from their menus tomorrow...
...condition of the food, I might say it is uniformly cold in most of the Houses. Rich looking roast beef can be disappointing if served only lukewarm. And who likes his boiled potato cold? The butter won't even melt. Carrots often appear unscraped...
Nationalism always comes before politics, and a Communist in CRS thinks a French communist is all wet, but he's going to turn brown when DeGaulle starts sending the opposition to the guillotine. Taber is another one who went through Europe like butter through a tin horn and started blowing off about how content and happy everyone was and how they all had sufficient to eat, whilst he warmed the cushion of a bar stool in an officers' club in Germany. You can't go around telling everybody that John Taber represents some people sitting around a cracker barrel...
...Keystone." But the problem transcended politics. It belonged to everyone, from the housewife paying 85? a pound for butter up to Harry Truman worrying about the foreign aid program...
...life at Colombey is the simple one of a dedicated, single-minded man. He gets up at 8, breakfasts on café au lait, brown bread, a little butter and jam, then tackles his mail and newspapers. The food served at lunch is simple and the wine is an inexpensive vin rosé served from a carafe, but the meal is a leisurely one, lasting one and a half or two hours, and topped off by brandy, cigars and conversation. Malraux or Soustelle is often there, and nearly every top Government man from Ramadier down has been to Colombey...