Word: buttered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commons disturbances included fights, walkouts, throwing of dubious edibles, and subjecting attending tutors to miscellaneous humiliations. Although the "Bread and Butter Rebellion of 1805" and the "Cabbage Rebellion of 1807" have gone down in history, none was so famous as the "Butter Rebellion...
...latter was a protest against the serving of rancid butter, which had been imported from Ireland. A Lampoon type of the time expressed his ire in a Biblical satire, which included the immortal line, "Behold our butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof...
Murray hit the convention's mood with his opening speech. "When all of the legalistic aspects are thrust aside," he cried, "eventually an agreement has to be arrived at, because whatever the courts may have to do with respect to your bread & butter . . . you and the industry will have to settle that when the courts are through . . ." Flushed and angry, Murray reviewed the dispute and its bitter stalemate. "We can't get collective bargaining in the U.S. today," he said, "and the President says you can't strike because you will injure our national defense effort. Well...
...earn his literary bread & butter many a novelist from Defoe to Dostoevsky has turned to the news for a fiction plot. The best of them make enduring fiction out of passing fact by drawing deep on their imagination. In Flee the Angry Strangers, Novelist George Mandel has picked a headline subject-drug addiction among teen-agers-but has given it little more than a gaping doubletake...
Beanball. In Chicago, Milkman William Arneson spotted a thief running away from his delivery truck with a crate of eggs and 13 pounds of butter, knocked him out by hurling a half-gallon bottle of milk, proudly identified himself to police as pitcher for the Bowman Dairy Baseball Team...