Word: buttered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Fairless: "The average price of all the finished steel we have sold this year has been just under a nickel a pound, and some of our products now sell at less than 3½? . . . What else in the world can you buy for 3½? a pound? Eggs, butter, meat? . . . There is literally nothing in our grocery store at home that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants...
Before another round had ended, the sentimentally pro-Louis crowd had the answer. The doomsday lefts & rights that won Joe the title from Braddock, and turned Max Schmeling and Max Baer to butter, were gone. For a dozen years Louis had been the best in the business, but the years had run out on him. At 218 Ibs., 17 over his prime weight, he was a paunchy shadow of the Brown Bomber. Charles spotted Louis 33^ Ibs., but he out-jabbed and outsmarted him almost...
Born. To Tony Martin, 36, butter-voiced cinemactor and nightclub crooner, and Cyd Charisse, 26, ballerina turned movie dancer (Fiesta): their first child (her second), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tony. Weight...
...loans and purchases. Furthermore, CCC cannot unload the surpluses on its biggest potential customer, the armed services. Reason: CCC by law adds a carrying charge to its selling price, and in some cases the total exceeds current wholesale prices. Result: the services are buying such items as butter in the open market, although CCC has 190 million Ibs. in its deep freeze...
...judge by The Man Who Lived Backward, the Florida sun has reduced Author Ross's butter-pat leftism to a soft, liberal mush. He spreads it thick on every page of the novel. Yet, at the same time, Ross clearly feels a futility in the brand of liberalism he professes. In this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total...