Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life to be ready to die." Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily spread with a kind of butter called gleena, made from slow-boiled candlefish, and is convinced that the elders mysteriously know whenever a stranger is coming. The Book of Common Prayer and Indian rituals reinforce each other as Mark helps the Kwakiutls transfer their tribal dead from a dilapidated tree-house burial site to newly hallowed ground...
...became an activist, highly visible vice mayor in 1970, pushing for tough, bread-and-butter reforms, particularly in the areas of housing and construction. He promoted black employment in construction, backed a community rent strike and conducted grievance hearings at a public housing project...
Biden said Democrats must campaign on bread-and-butter issues. "The administration's economic mismanagement should be at the top," he said. "We are campaigning against a president who thinks that the public good is the sum of all private deals...
...never seen the unit-price labels used by consumers in his store. "I use them myself in the supermarket, but in stores like ours with restricted product lines and with higher prices, it's just not worth it. We just don't stock two kinds of peanut butter," he said
...volunteer in an apple producing area is now advising a co-op in setting up an apple butter factory and making connections with food-chain distributors. This cooperative will offer higher prices for apples to local farmers than the middlemen--the truckers who buy apples to resell for higher prices in Guatemala City. The co-op assembly decided to take the risk and borrow the money to invest in the factory, on the condition that the volunteer would extend his stay another two years, until the factory is established...