Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gilt medal the heroic baker has to observe these stern commandments: bake excellent bread; build field ovens quickly; economize in the use of flour, butter and firewood; take care of the equipment; camouflage; be clean...
...Grits (also called hominy or hominy grits) is a coarsely ground, somewhat glutinous meal made from corn, is eaten with melted butter or hot gravy...
Sugar is rare, butter almost unobtainable...
Teachers and students last week, along with beef, butter and gasoline, were on the nation's list of shortages. Educators were increasingly alarmed. The National Education Association reported that almost everywhere in the U.S. restless 16-and 17-year-olds (TIME, Aug. 2) are withdrawing from school at a mounting rate, asked parents and students to remember that "high officials . . . have urged youth ... up to 18 to build the foundations of a broad education [as their] greatest national service...
...There may be no meat on the platter, No coffee, nor butter for bread; It all seems a trivial matter So long as I have on my head A fluff and a puff and a whimsy Suggestive of Salvador Dali, Irrelevant, flaunting and flimsy, A symbol of feminine folly. . . ." Two publishers wanted to get in touch with Lamartine to persuade him to write a book. Newsreel photographers hammered at Editor Norman Cousins' door, demanding to know M. Lamartine's where abouts. Manhattan newsmen tried vainly to find him. A female reporter from the Louisville Courier-Journal tried...