Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into effect in major cities. One reason for the shortage: astronomical feed costs have caused many dairymen to sell off their cows for hamburger. To hold down feed costs, some farmers are serving their cows ground newspaper and orange peels. On that diet, cows give a lot less milk. Butter production is down 18% below last year's and the Administration is considering opening the door to limited imports of foreign butter to increase supplies...
...because it is very clear. We, who have foreign currency reserves superior to that in many Latin American countries, who have land that could feed, and should feed, 20 or 25 million people, we have had to import, since always--no one remembers when it started--meat, wheat, lard, butter and cooking oil: 200 million dollars a year...
...jobs, and eventually wound up in Chicago with Paul Sills' Second City after marrying one of its actors, Richard Schaal. Along the way she supported herself by appearing in industrial shows introducing new products to out-of-town distributors. Her most memorable roles: a stripteaser in a peanut-butter show, and a dancer who pirouetted around a Chevrolet singing, "The mighty voice of Chevrolet rings out across the land...
After two or three beers, I enjoy talking about my ex-roommate who liked peanut butter and bologna sandwiches, about the night four of us inched across the Adams House roof to break into the pool at 2 a.m. I like talking about The Crimson comp, about loud concerts, and stupid jokes my drinking partner has heard also...
...attain it, and brought a share of an Eastern title to Cambridge in two years, who recruited finagled, persuaded, and cajoled enough high school seniors across the country to come east and who generated and enlivened Harvard swimming. Gambril, whose stature at Harvard was once likened to spreading peanut butter on caviar, who adjusted to the easy-come-easy-go attitude of Harvard athletes by transforming it into a train-hard-and-win philosophy. Gambril, who brought Harvard to the pinnacle of Eastern swimming and then, seeing the restrictions, the limitations, the frustrations of coaching with a limited budget...