Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning] we heard that Montgomery had been made a Field Marshal and proclaimed the greatest living soldier. Our appetite for breakfast was not so good." He quotes with approval Bradley's comment that Monty's promise of a "dagger thrust" at Germany would be more like a "butter-knife thrust...
...Like a Butter Pat. By morning, when the danger began to abate, Bar Harbor was a ghost town, surrounded by hot and smoking ruins...
Blackened chimneys were all that remained of two resort hotels, the Belmont and the Malvern. The summer homes of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, Conductor Walter Damrosch, the late Henry Morgenthau Sr. and scores of other wealthy people had burned as though they were built of butter pats and bacon rinds. U.S. cancer research had received a terrible blow. The red-brick Jackson Memorial Laboratory, with its irreplaceable records and 90,000 precious mice, which had been carefully inbred for generations to produce various manifestations of cancer, had been destroyed...
...butter-fingered goalie and ten other pseudo-athletes from Worcester Polytechnic Institute ganged up to give Coach MacDonald's Varsity soccer team eight goals and its fifth win of the fall season last Saturday on Worcester's rutted playing field. Passing wildly and mostly to Crimson players, the Techmen came closest to scoring a goal when a Harvard fullback accidentally blasted the ball at his own goal...
...Penn captain looked about him, and his eye fixed on Bowser, a very fat guard. "Let's give Bowser a chance," he said, and Bowser was put in the backfield, while the team assured itself that his bountiful avoirdupois would cut through the Cantabs like a cleaver through soft butter...