Word: butterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Round Passage. During its first full-scale tests on Lake Ontario, the Alexbow, attached to a 65-ft. barge pushed by a 1,320-h.p. tug, cleared a 30-ft. channel in unbroken blue ice 14 inches thick. It also knifed 180° turns as though the ice were butter. Running at speeds from 21 to 31 knots, the tug accelerated easily in thinner ice because there was no friction along the sides of the barge - the Alexbow had thrown all the troublesome chunks clear...
...most of the time he plies a sober, analytical course through the jazz recordings made between New Orleans' Storyville days and the birth of the big-band era in the early 1930s. He scrutinizes Louis Armstrong's solo on Big Butter and Egg Man (1926) as if it were a song of Mozart's. In fact, he writes, "not even a Mozart or a Schubert composed anything more natural and simply inspired." Blues Singer Bessie Smith's laments of a gin-soaked life might as well be lieder sung by Lotte Lehmann for the way Schuller...
...weatherbeaten, seafaring sort of man--leaned over, dipped his knife into the butter (which comes in little pewter buckets) and spread some onto his muffin. The muffin crumbled...
...1880s, in the back room of their neighborhood meat market on Chicago's North Side, the Bavarian Mayer brothers-Oscar, Gottfried and Max-worked hard stuffing sausages. Oscar's wife Louise helped, and their son Oscar G. stood on a butter tub behind the counter to take orders. Weisswurst, Bockwurst, Leberwurst were packed into wicker baskets and piled on horse-drawn wagons to make the rounds. They sold well-enough to send Oscar G. to Harvard, which he left with a Phi Beta Kappa key and ambitions to expand the family business...
There was a certain irony in that message. For years, experts vainly tried to convince the President that the dollar was sliding toward an avoidable crisis. Its current predicament springs from Johnson's 1965 guns-and-butter policy, under which he vastly stepped up the Viet Nam war effort and expanded the Great Society programs without making a corresponding effort to raise funds. The war was supposed to cost $10 billion a year. Instead, the price tag jumped to $20 billion, then to its current $30 billion. "Our country is overcommitted at home and abroad," warned Robert Roosa...