Word: buttering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certain staples of civilized life in the Western world-butter, for instance-may be in short supply simply because they will become too expensive to produce in volume. Otherwise, though, the '70s will be a decade with a food surplus, perhaps even a grain glut, that could lead to agricultural depression. Whether hunger is eliminated, however, depends upon the mechanics of distribution-a problem for politicians and economists, not for agricultural technicians...
...brassy as Ethel Merman's and a tongue as agile as Dorothy Parker's; she made her Broadway debut in 1931's Here Goes the Bride, scored hits in 1943's Voice of the Turtle, 1953's Mid Summer and 1966's The Butter and Egg Man revival, and appeared in more than 200 TV shows, most notably The Man Who Came to Dinner and Burlesque...
Caldron Cookery: An Authentic Guide for Coven Connoisseurs bv Marcello Truzzi, illustrated bv Victoria Chess. I 15 pages. Meredith. $3.95. Having exhausted everything from aardvark fried in yak butter to zabaglione a zingari, the compilers of cookbooks have turned to something really occult. Bats, eye of newt, serpents, felon's hands and less mentionable exotica seem to have formed the staple diet of the industrious witch. It should be said that this book serves no culinary purpose except perhaps to divert conversation among guests from the infamous concoctions some contemporary witch may happen to be serving in the name...
...large group of freaks huddled together for warmth. We joined them. A couple of people in our group returned from a trip to the VW with bread, cheese, and grass. Soon joints and all sorts of food-chicken, mints, cheese, peanut butter-were being passed through the crowd. We sang with Pete Seeger, we jumped for Richie Havens, we laughed at Tim Leary. A fat man frowned and a young girl took pictures while we rolled joints; everybody else smiled. Then they announced Earl Scruggs. We jumped up and began a round
...middle class American is not shifting to the right. as some people have suggested but merely wants to retain the economic benefits he received under the New Deal and in the '50's. Javits said. "He is still very much left of center on bread and butter issues." he added...