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Word: butter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secure in the knowledge of a baby's steady value, people traded them freely for gas, food, movie tickets and large popcorns--with or without butter--and often sent them off to the IRS for tax payments...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Cabbage Patch Currency | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

Gonna: Oliver Stone, Platoon. Because Best Picture and Best Director are peanut butter and jelly. Here's a preview of Stone's acceptance speech: "I'd just like to thank...boo hoo hoo...all those kids who...boo hoo hoo...in the Big 'Nam. This one's for you, dudes! Take no prisoners...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: And the Envelope, Please | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...pats of butter lining the 50-foot ceiling are another example of freshmen antics. But only a few freshmen today claim to know how the unused condiments got up there. Theories range from snapping serviettes to simply flinging the card-board squares skyward. Rob D. Smith '90 even suggests artificial levitants. "My guess is that helium balloons were used. You balance a pat of butter on the top of a balloon, and let it go. I don't think there's any other way," he said...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

Katie Reify '90 adds that the butter adds "a summer camp atmosphere" to the Union. "[It's] so ridiculous and immature," she said...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

...Belgian beer that had to ride out a phony report that it caused impotence, and France's margarine industry, the victim of gossip that the lower-price spread was full of dangerous contaminants. Kapferer thinks French housewives got behind the margarine rumor as an excuse to keep buying butter. One margarine company fought back with an ad slogan describing the story as the "rumor that costs you dearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Psst! Wait Till You Hear This | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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