Word: butter
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While the campus has recently been embroiled by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ distaste for outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard has historically been a difficult campus to please. For example, students risked expulsion in 1766 for criticizing rancid butter served in the Commons, and in 1768, they revolted against raising academic standards by smashing tutors’ windows. In the “Great Rebellion of 1834,” students raised a black flag of rebellion and burned University President Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, in effigy. And in 1969, University President Nathan...
Every year since 1900, with only one exception (1918, when the influenza epidemic claimed more lives), heart disease has had the dubious honor of being the U.S.'s leading killer. Lowering cholesterol levels, specifically the low-density lipoproteins (LDL) that make meats and butter-laden desserts so irresistible to the palate but so hazardous to the heart, was the first step to slowing down the disease. But now physicians are shifting their attention to LDL's do-good partner, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), encouraged by early evidence suggesting it can not only clean out fatty deposits within blood-vessel walls...
DALLAS Local customers buy Avon Glimmersticks ($6) "like bread and butter," according to one of the 11,000 company representatives who work in the area...
...commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling ... If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... She wonders if her husband will send her flowers (on no special occasion), shoos the children next door to play at the neighbor's house...
...Peanut butter. The deliciousness of the organic variety could just be the tip of the crunchy/creamy iceberg...