Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Butter, No Milk. In such predominantly Catholic regions as Normandy, Brittany and La Vendée, children who attend public schools and their parents are occasionally denied the sacraments. In one Vendée town the curé himself told his congregation: "You have a good laïque teacher, but even if she were a saint, you should not send your children to her." The teacher soon found that children would turn from her in the street, and that farmers refused to sell her butter and milk. In cities the tables are often turned: a child returning from confession...
...magic candlesticks. Is alligators holy, Bishop? Is everything holy? Are we all in heaven now and don't know about it? Jamambi, jamambi, jamambi, jamac." After that, the plot thins, but it is the flavor that matters. On the floor, walls, ceiling are "toothbrush cockroaches, coffee cockroaches, peanut butter cockroaches," and "the Empire State has fallen into the Gowanus Canal...
Early in the year, the pro champion Baltimore Colts lolled on the laurels of success. With a rock-hard defense turned butter-soft, their record at mid-season was an embarrassing 4-3, and only the slingshot passes of Quarterback Johnny Unitas saved the Colts from a worse showing. Not until recent weeks did the Colts turn frisky again, climb to a first-place tie in the Western Conference with the faltering San Francisco Forty-Niners...
Blob & Prosper. Ten years ago, at 28, he got his first art commission, a mural depicting "Children Begging" for the Amsterdam city-hall canteen. Lunching civil servants said it upset their digestion, hurled butter pats at it. The resulting controversy made him famous...
...Much smaller than its rivals, the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan, it has three stages filled with fuel made mostly of a rubbery plastic holding together crystals of an oxygen-supplying material, such as ammonium perchlorate. The ingredients are first blended to form a semiliquid mass like peanut butter. This is pumped with extreme care into the rocket casing and cured by gentle heat to turn it into an elastic solid. Then a mandrel in the center is pulled out, leaving a roughly star-shaped cavity on whose surface the fuel will start to burn when the rocket is fired...