Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capper wrested her title from an English shorthorn named Cherry. Cherry had taken her record from Capper's older half-sister, Carnation Orrnsby Butter King, who-according to Capper's press agent-died shortly afterwards of a broken heart...
...hand was only a formal little period to an occasion that had ended two days before. He wondered why he'd written it, now that he thought it over. The letter didn't lead on to anything else. Social habit, maybe. No. And people didn't write bread and butter notes when there was no more bread and butter. In three weeks Ann would be leaving Radcliffe, which closed out the league for good as far as Vag was concerned...
...bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Several days before the 30th anniversary of his accession to the throne, King Christian X ruled that no celebrations be held in his honor. In the once dairy-rich country there was still some milk- but most of it was skimmed. Eggs, butter and bacon, onetime Danish standbys, were scarce as hens' teeth. Thousands of Danes had been exiled to enforced labor in Germany. Two years of German domination had really brought the New Order to Denmark...
...pint of milk; two helpings of potatoes; two helpings of fruit, one a citrus fruit or tomato; two vegetables, one leafy, green or yellow; one egg; one helping of meat, fish or poultry; a cereal dish (whole grain); whole-grain or enriched white bread at every meal; and butter or fortified oleomargarine...
Said WPB: no more asparagus tongs, beer mugs, bird cages, butter knives, cash registers, cigaret lighters, cocktail shakers, compacts, corn poppers; no more flagpoles, hair curlers, knitting needles, lobster forks, pie plates; no more roller skates, spittoons, toolboxes, wastebaskets or weatherstripping; no more nothing. Only concession to buying-as-usual: if gold or silver could do in place of other metals, WPB said go ahead...