Word: buttered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when rations were things that only soldiers were expected to live on . . ." Sympathizing with civil servants who dwell in "bedsitting rooms,"' the Times asks: "Is it really possible to entertain with any degree of elegance in a room that contains one's pyjamas, and one's butter ration, one's hair oil and one's Empire sherry...
...best the means of expression, and at worst the personal usurpers of human feelings and social demands which are much more basic and much more immortal than Mao or Stalin. Jealously of America's wealth, symbolized by the 200 million bushels of what and 100 million pounds of butter in storage of the Community Credit Corporation; fear of our power, both military and economic--these are the things which feed the fire of hate for us all over the world, and which make bearable to half the world the immeasurable oppression of totalitarian dictatorship; for, what won't we bear...
...clear-eyed Hopalong. Black Hopalong Cassidy shirts and Hopalong Cassidy pants were simple necessities; the more fashionable put on Hopalong Cassidy pajamas to sleep in a Hopalong Cassidy bed, had Hopalong Cassidy wallpaper (which outsold every design in the U.S. this year), ate Hopalong Cassidy cookies and peanut butter and rode a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle (which has handle bars shaped like steer horns...
Argued Economist Johnson: "We should at least give openminded and serious consideration to the possibility of having an expanding economy providing both 'guns and butter,' before accepting as inevitable the philosophy of 'austerity,' the lowering of living standards, excessive controls and taxation, or excessive centralization of power in Government...
...groom runs a grocery store on Main Street and is a steady patron of our advertising columns. He has a good line of bargains this week. All summer he paid two cents more for butter than any other store in town...