Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised that you find America's mood hopeful-sort of. A few years ago barbecued ribs were all the rage. Then we switched to a bitter diet of crow. Now that the indigestion has all but passed, peanut butter doesn't sound...
...train roared north toward Jimmy's new home. Sam had bought his first dark blue suit for the Inaugural Ball, and was singing his new composition, The Jimmy Carter Special ("When I was a young'un I heard Jimmy say,/ 'Sure as there's peanut butter I'll be President some...
...Carter's ability to express warm affection. Carter and his wife hold hands as naturally in public as though they were on a high school date. The Georgian has extraordinary empathy with children. During the campaign, he took time out to talk to grade school kids?about civics, peanut butter, civil liberties?and never talked down to them. Once Carter asked a correspondent about his family. The reporter mentioned that one of his children was suffering from an incurable disease?and turned to see tears running down Carter's cheeks...
...Grab. On Thanksgiving Day, Tokyo replied. It proposed to hold Japanese auto exports to Britain to 10% or less of the British market, to increase quotas on imports of European skimmed milk, butter and cheese into Japan, and to line up more Japanese importers of processed meats and retailers of imported tobacco. Most encouraging to the Europeans, the Japanese also agreed to negotiations on shipbuilding, the sorest issue of all. In the first nine months of 1976, Japan grabbed 86% of all shipbuilding contracts awarded in industrialized countries. European shipbuilders claim that the Japanese can underbid them...
...first sketched the kid with the cowlick in 1951. Gripes he: "I don't mind paying nine Swiss francs for a jar of something labeled beurre d'arachide crémeux. But when you figure out that it means $3.75 for a jar of Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter, it's ridiculous." Ketcham also feared that he was on the verge of turning Dennis' all-American comic-strip household into chez Mitchell. Says he: "I may be leaving in time, just before I inadvertently put a bottle of wine on the Mitchell table and have Dennis...