Word: butter
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...killing, maiming -- and getting maimed and killed. How all that ended is well known. Bill Clinton, a college dissenter during the height of hostilities in Vietnam, showed last week that he could put a coda to that sad history and make a fresh start at pacification, this time with butter instead of guns. His lifting of Washington's 30-year-old trade embargo against Hanoi amounted to the final farewell to arms in the long, dismal, tortured struggle that devoured much of the best resources of both countries...
Almost as hallowed a tradition as the butter pats on the Union ceiling and the tire swing at Winthrop, we've delighted test-taking basketcases with this essay every reading period since 1950. (That's 87 reading periods, by the way.) For 43 and a half years, The Crimson has guided its readers to success in the bluebook. Though the essay won the Dana Reed writing prize in 1951, it didn't please everybody. In 1962, a grader was irked enough to reply, and the two essays have been printed together ever since...
...bread and butter politician," said Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-56 (D-Mass), in an interview with reporters on the church steps. "His loss is irreplaceable...
...calories, Montignac measures foods by their "glycemic index," or the blood-sugar level they induce. Sugar, he contends, stimulates the overproduction of insulin, which leads the body to store fat. Thus foods with a high index, such as potatoes and white bread, should not be combined with fats like butter...
Maria Mendez '97 has similar complaints--she thinks she's gained weight since her arrival at Harvard partly because so many foods here are cooked in butter...