Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Death has become commonplace in Colombia," said a well-informed U.S. traveler returning from Bogota last week. "The words assassination and murder are bandied about with no more emotion than we talk of beans, butter & bread...
Linklater soon gets his variegated cast moving, his wheels-within-wheels churning out the butter of melodrama. Reformist M.P. Pettigrew speedily rouses the fury of the village women, while his wife works havoc with the menfolk. The Greek professor (who is Author Linklater disguised in a tunic) orates at length on life, love and Labor; the poachers cast their nocturnal nets in the moorland stream. Sluggish Laxdale plunges into a 'hubbub of mingled rage, passion, skulduggery and Euripidean oratory...
...hard to say which were more successful. Though there were only a few oil portraits in the show (Cox has done such celebrities as Harvard President James B. Conant, Judge Learned Hand, Dean Acheson), it was plain that he is no mere bread & butter portraitist. The pictures had a carefree, almost dashed-off look: lots of lively colors, some swift lines brushed in with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added...
...much better cook than I am," she went on. "I'm not very good in the kitchen. He has a steak thing. He broils the steak over charcoal with a light butter sauce seasoned with garlic powder-everything he does has garlic. The steaks get burned-looking and you wonder if they'll be any good. They...
...rush at the stores last week made margarine-makers confident that U.S. consumption will grow faster than ever. Since 1935, butter consumption has fallen from 17.1 Ibs. per person to 9.7 last year, while margarine consumption has climbed from 2.4 Ibs. per person to 6.6 Ibs., and is increasing this year at the rate...