Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remember when we were rationing jobs, not butter?" asked Bevan. "There's no need for that now . . . We're putting the pawnshops out of business." Then Bevan asked in a loud stage whisper: "By the way, is that pawnshop still there...
...slighted one work, it would feel hurt." But he had tried to compose a work "on the highest musical plane, exploiting the virtuosity of the violin and not just showing it off." The concerto had, he said, "a good deal of melody-and melody is the bread and butter of music...
...first movement, full of vigor, speed and spirit, gave listeners a slice of "bread & butter"; there was a broad theme to hold on to, although in periods of paraphrase and pyrotechnics it sometimes slithered out of the average listener's grasp. In the second movement, an andantino "interlude," the violin sang a beautifully simple song. Composer Schuman split the furious pace of the last movement with a long brassy chorale...
Last week the Senate: ¶ Defied the butter lobby by repealing the 48-year-old federal tax of 10? a pound on colored oleomargarine, and ¼? a pound on uncolored. In the heat of debate, Wisconsin's butter-loving Alexander Wiley pleaded with his colleagues to remember that "the dairy cow is the foster mother of the race." The Senate granted only one concession to the butter makers: oleo would have to be sold in triangular instead of rectangular packages...
...detailing our failures and possible future policy in the Near East, Frye claimed that the Truman Plan is out of date. Hostile feeling is rising in Turkey, because she feels the United States thinks her expendable, sending only guns and not butter. He proposed a long range program of aid in the Near East for these countries which...