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Word: butter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only new bar that has achieved any kind of success lately is the Mars Marathon bar. Think I'm full of fudge? Well, when was the last time you saw Willie Wonka's Peanut Butter Oompahs...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Pot Pourri: March's Most Popular Pastime | 3/16/1978 | See Source »

...volunteers grew peas, beans, buckwheat and flax, and raised chickens, goats, pigs and cattle. They kept bees in wicker hives for their honey, and traded pottery and baby goats to the film crew for rations of salt and butter. Food storage was a constant problem. At times, the group had to eat maggoty meat and cope with invasions of rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Reliving the Iron Age in Britain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...with her baby's face pressed in her sarong. Another child hops at her feet, his hands thrust to the ceiling. A devotee jumps from alongside the altar with a burning brass tin of ghee-soaked cotton. He dodges his fellow devotees, offering each the burning ghee, or clarified butter. Everyone passes his hand over the sweet smelling ghee and touches his forehead...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: For the Love of God: Krishna in Boston | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...outright loans to refurbish and expand the big hotels. And Beach officials are trying to rectify the reputation of resort employees for surliness to tourists. The officials have held special sessions with cab drivers and hotel workers to coach them in etiquette, and passed out buttons to employees reading: BUTTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ebb Tide at Miami Beach | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...prices! An 18-oz. jar of no-name peanut butter at Jewel costs 34? less than Skippy; a 14-oz. bottle of no-name ketchup costs 22? less than Heinz, and 25 Ibs. of dog food sells for $2.80 less than Gaines Meal. Says Jewel President Walter Elisha: "Consumer response has been overwhelmingly favorable." That is not hyperbole. One morning, Star stacked 500 cases of no-name tuna in twelve of its suburban stores. The 6½-oz. cans sold for 59? each, v. 89? for Star-Kist. Though the food chain expected the supply to last a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No-Brand Groceries | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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