Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the writer, Milton S. Gwirtzman, is on Jimmy Carter's staff. Then, as if to rub things in a bit, More's editors note that Gwirtzman's "involvement with Carter in no way diminishes his analysis." Sure. And perhaps Gwirtzman didn't have it in mind to butter up a few national reporters for the homestretch...
...Potala, he said, it is used "to teach class education, Tibetan culture and language." Visitors are shown the Dalai Lama's brocade-lined private quarters at the very top of the palace. The long corridors, which were once dimly illuminated by lamps that burned yak butter, now have electric lights. But the palace's past is still evoked by a pantheon of Buddhist deities in prayer halls, and by the rows of sutras (books of Buddhist scripture) piled on wooden shelves...
...Frixes have planted 25 acres with 1,000 peach trees. LG and Judy pick most of the fruit themselves. "We ain't made but one real crop, though," says Frix. "Cold weather killed them." Another 20 acres have been planted to snap beans, butter beans, cucumbers and squash, but there have been problems with those crops too. "Like a month ago I planted two acres of snap beans," he says. "They came up good. Then I go over there and found just one bean standing up. Deer was eatin' them up." The remaining 53 acres are wooded...
Judy economizes wherever she can. The family's grocery bill averages a mere $25 a month. "We never buy meat," she explains. "LG hunts deer, squirrels and wild rabbits I make everything I can: butter, buttermilk, cream, preserves catsup and applesauce. We have all the fresh vegetables we want...
...town became an open-air monastery. Lamas in robes of red and ocher rubbed shoulders with laymen, zealously spinning the prayer wheels that would magnify a hundredfold the effect of incantations written upon them. The Dalai Lama, followed by flocks of devotees, visited monasteries rancid with the odor of butter-oil lamps. Then, leaving the bustling tent township erected for the occasion, he retired with his chosen monks to a small pagoda on the banks of the Indus River to devote six days to prayer and penance...