Word: butterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months after payment. In the U.S., Johnson's Republican opposition insists that the most effective medicine would be a cut in domestic spending. Accordingly, when a $2.5 billion money bill hit the House floor last week, G.O.P. Congressmen saw it as an issue of "guns v. butter," or as they now call it, "rifles v. ruffles." Since much of the money was earmarked for pensions and pay raises for Government employees and servicemen, the Republicans aimed instead at what they considered to be two Great Society ruffles: a $12 million rent-subsidy program for the poor...
...Peanut Butter--Marathons...
...Peanut Butter...
...those of ancient Plymouths. In the faded plush elegance of Bucharest's Athenee Palace Hotel, violins sob Wien, Wien, Nur Du Allein with a sentimentality unmatched since Grand Hotel. More than 300,000 Westerners made Hungary their destination; there they dined on goose liver sautéed in butter at Gundel's, or listened to an Eddy Duchin-like piano at the Pipacs (pronounced Peapatch) nightclub, whose pianist resembles Peter Lorre. Some 620,000 swarmed into Czechoslovakia, to shop the ancient guild houses of Prague, one of the few cities in Europe untouched by the war, or listen...
...memories are less of Benchley than of Berkeley, and, in the absence of much protest humor, they have concentrated on deliberate absurdities that refuse to deal with the adult world. Such were the elephant jokes (What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A peanut that never forgets or an elephant that sticks to the roof of your mouth) and the more recent grape jokes. (What's purple and hums? An electric grape. Why does it hum? It doesn't know the words). Another collegiate fad was the Tom Swifties, inspired...