Word: buttered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clash of legal ideas, hardly lends itself to dramatization. But Lavery skimps even on a primer-level presentation of his subject's life work. Having emptied the character of all but the vaguest sense of purpose, to say nothing of greatness, he fills it largely with a butter-soft stuffing of homely anecdotes...
...late afternoon, a gun carriage drawn by Indian soldiers, sailors and airmen carried the body through Bombay's streets while vast crowds mourned and planes overhead showered the procession with flowers. Finally, at the cemetery, the dead man's son poured incense and ghee (semifluid butter) over the body and lit the pyre. Watching the rising flames, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed. It was barely ten hours since a heart attack had brought death to long-ailing, 75-year-old Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister of India...
Caddigan solemnly avers that Captain Video, sponsored by Power House Candy Bar and Skippy Peanut Butter, has an educational bent: "It sets up in a child's mind the idea of what electronics...
...when parity was last computed) brought the grower an average $1.46 a box or 39% of parity, and before the Government could control oranges the price would have to rise to $3.70 a box. Similarly, milk would have to go up 13%, wheat 15%, corn 17%, butter fat 18% and potatoes 51% before price ceilings could...
...production had not yet created any civilian shortages-and would not for some time to come. ¶ The economy had expanded so rapidly since 1945 that the ratio of butter v. guns could be higher than during World War II-in fact, civilian production had to be higher to maintain full employment and keep the economy healthy. ¶ The so-called "indirect controls" on credit and construction have been effective in cutting back demand (see below...