Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clem" Attlee (whom Laski considers too conservative), has prestige with Labor's rank & file (who are proud of their "posh" professor), has even greater influence on Britain's leftist intellectuals. But many Labor Party members dislike Laski for his "intellectual snobbishness," his impatience with trade-union "bread & butter questions" of today, his preoccupation with the Marxist power problems of tomorrow...
Ever since undergraduates ate in Mem Hall on the Delta and complained, "Lo! the butter stinketh!" there have been complaints about Harvard food. The petition currently being circulated may be described merely as the umpteenth in a series...
Said the Manila Chronicle : "One of the most lucrative trades in Manila today is selling Army goods, obtained by hook or crook, at black-market prices. Eating places sell bread, butter and coffee with condensed milk, pies and other delicacies made of materials that can be obtained only from the Army. Small boys roam the streets everyday, peddling candy, cigarets and whatnot bought from G.I.s needing ready cash...
...name "Helen" and a phone number on the wall of a booth, dialed, was greeted with, "Hereafter save your nickels and buy war bonds." They Also Serve ... In Manhattan, Gristede Brothers, grocers, sent two boys with each pushcart load of orders - the extra one to stand guard over the butter...
...know how it is," Reynard confided to Grimbart. "One cannot always keep himself as holy as if he lived in a monastery. The fault is not always with me. Take, for example, that confounded Hare. The rascal was as fat as butter. I loved that Hare but he would go scampering around under my nose, and the time came when affection was no longer a match for appetite...