Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slowdown in inflation. But blue-collar voters seem more concerned about unemployment than inflation. Says Mike LaVelle, the Chicago Tribune's blue-collar columnist: "Jobs are really it. Carter doesn't have to do anything but keep pointing out the percentage of unemployed." Thus, the bread-and-butter worries created by the recession stand to produce more labor votes for Carter than all of the pleas of union leaders...
Carter's prospects brighten on the issues. Even though various polls have shown a conservative trend in America, people do not seem to have changed their minds substantially on bread-and-butter matters. Inflation is still seen as a predominant concern. But more voters place the creation of jobs (51%) ahead of curbing inflation even at the risk of continued high unemployment (43%) as the country's top priority. A Government guarantee of a job for everyone who wants to work is supported 56%-37%. Such a majority suggests that Ford either does not have a surefire issue...
...some very cultivated palates, however, yogurt's main virtue is its taste. Gourmet Craig Claiborne says it is "a sensational ingredient for cooking." Food Critic Gael Greene cautions that it cannot be compared with foie gras, or homemade butter-pecan ice cream. But she says that she breakfasts on yogurt "every disciplined morning," adding, "yogurt is definitely a best friend -but not a lover...
Jimmy Carter has brought hominy to the divided ranks of the Democratic Party [July 26]. He is the man to restore our lost faith in peanut butter...
...brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility. In our desire to see to it that all children in America are adequately fed, housed, clothed, educated and kept healthy, let us take care that we do not undermine the role of parents in the lives of their children...