Word: butter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...good articulation and flashy slides. Mintz knows--or so it is said--what it is like to wake up and forget that he is not in his own bed. On the other hand, the recording of Kreisler's arrangement of the Albeniz Tango is no reason to get the butter. Mintz plays it as oversentimentally as the Glasunow...
...buildup. A tradeoff exists: while fares on the MBTA have tripled in the last year, the entire MBTA budget ($60 million) equals less than the cost of three F/A-18 fighter planes (1366 are planned). In the end, political support for economic conversion does not amount to a choice of butter over guns. The question is of civilians demanding the right to participate in the decision of how many guns will replace their butter. In struggling for that right, we need something politically more serious than a non-binding suggestion to local government. But the referendum--neglected though it was--served...
...during 1980, will have a 10% rate of real growth this year. That is still a high figure by most standards (the predicted U.S. rate for 1981: less than 1%), but one that conceals growing problems such as a scarcity of gasoline and diesel fuel and spot shortages of butter, cheese and meat. An inflation rate of 20% has more than wiped out gains in wages. Foreign investors, skittish about recent government takeovers of the Zimbabwe Banking Corp., the country's most prominent chain of newspapers and Caps holdings, a pharmaceutical company, have shied away from financing new projects...
Meantime, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Monty Stokes, 26000's pilot, glanced over his gleaming ship. It had been plied with Turtle Wax, polished, cleaned, fueled and stocked. Terry Yamada, the chief steward, remembered that Ford liked butter-pecan ice cream, and he requisitioned a couple of quarts. He added some Don Diego cigars for Nixon, a secret indulgence. Yamada made certain that he had enough footies and eye masks for the 23-hr. 35-min. round-trip journey...
Picnic lunches ranged from peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to three-course meals served on white tablecloths. Sipping imported wine from crystal goblets, Maria Siciliano of Wellesley College described the day as "nice and decadent...