Word: butter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first undergraduate uprising was the famous "butter riot" of 1766. Bad food had been a student complaint since the University's founding, and the rebellion started when Asa Dunbar, grandfather of Henry Thoreau, confronted an administrator and complained. "Behold, our butter stinketh and we cannot eat thereof...
...days, residents of the Yard sometimes got out of line. Riots over letter butter in the College's dining halls closed down Harvard in the 18th century. President Josish Quincy reprimanded freshmen of the 1800's who dressed sloppily. And debates raged earlier in this century over the College's parietal rules," which restricted visiting hours and other forms of contact between the scans...
...Butter Battle Book, Seuss
...longer seems absurd. An absolutely azure sky set off by a single cloud looking as if it were shot up there from a pastry chefs icing gun, that kind of a day. And everywhere houses cling to the cliffsides like cockleburs. Jade plants, looking like so many butter beans on a stick, grow high and thick out here, form hedges, give privacy. (Back East, they live, if they live, in pots.) With air soft on the cheek, a boisterous green ocean in view, blazing red bougainvillea at the back, it is suddenly clear what has pulled so many souls...
...Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss...