Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Epps's involvement stemmed from complaints from students--at least two of whom had their privately-owned refrigerators tagged for repossession the day before Thanksgiving, and feared they would return from the holiday to find an empty space with butter melting on their floor--and from Currier House staff...
...prepared to eat crow for a while, but I will never, ever eat peanut butter again...
There's nothing that breaks up a crowded Harvard dining hall like the sound of glass meeting floor. Conversation ceases, faces turn, and everyone wants to know the identity of the ding-a-ling with butter fingers...
...clearest clash, however, is over bread and butter. Unlike Buckley, Moynihan favors a federal takeover of welfare, passage of a national health-insurance bill and enactment of other measures necessary to help the economically distressed Northeast. He accuses Buckley of abandoning New York State's economic interests for the sake of antiquated conservative principle...
...rows of new brick apartment buildings on the dry river beds outside the city. Camels still graze in sight of the new air terminal. Smoke from a cement plant floats across grazing lands where Kazakh cowboys pitch their tents of yak felt. (Visiting dignitaries like Schlesinger are served yak-butter tea and mare's fermented milk...