Word: butter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrived: there was a suicide emergency at Falwell's center for alcoholics in Lynchburg, Va. A distraught veteran was threatening to blow his head off with a loaded pistol unless Falwell came back and talked to him. The would-be suicide was put on the phone, and, slick as butter, the Reverend began to calm him. Falwell explained, as one reasonable person to another, that he had to be on a national television program. But, Falwell promised, he would certainly be back in Virginia by 6 o'clock that evening. The veteran agreed to wait. Falwell did his show, flew...
Republicans, on the other hand, have always kept a pretty low profile in this city of 96,000. While the city's diverse immigrant groups and blue collar workers support bread and butter issues, intellectuals and students from Cambridge's two major universities concern themselves with issues like the nuclear freeze movement and granting sanctuary to Central American refugees...
...hijacker complained. "No more cheese and jam sandwiches. We want meat, something with meat." Airport authorities reportedly sent 80 portions of chicken and rice, 80 salads and 80 coconut cakes to the plane. Later in the week, they sent 80 small jars of jam, 80 packs of butter and the same number of bread rolls. In his cockpit interview, Testrake remarked: "They sometimes bring us airline food and sometimes Lebanese food. I'd say on the whole the food...
...thieves who get caught in the Yard (they must be thieves, because only Harvard students are intelligent enough to walk 50-ft. to the next exit) get taken to jail where they have to eat plain bread and water? If so, maybe the phrase should read "To Depart, Serve Butter to Thy Kind...
...Musselman has a three pitch repertoire: a bread-and-butter slider ("My best pitch"), a curveball ("My out pitch") and a fastball ("I've been clocked up at 88 [m.p.h.] before...