Search Details

Word: butterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Civilian consumer goods are virtually nonexistent in Uganda today. Butter, milk, meat and eggs are in short supply, and what there is must be bought for hard-currency cash from Kenya. Basics, like clothing, are all but unobtainable, except at exorbitant prices. Window displays look impressive, but most of the cans and cartons on display are actually empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...Boeing 707 flight from Nairobi to Entebbe carried exactly seven tourists. They found on arrival in Kampala that the 14-story International Hotel, one of the best in town, had virtually no food to serve: there was stringy steak one night and hairy chicken the next-no vegetables, sauces, butter, nothing else. The tourists were flown to Uganda's once magnificent but now sadly neglected game parks. The game lodges were crumbling, ill-kept and short of food. The huge herds of elephants that once roamed the beautiful Queen Elizabeth National Park (now renamed Ruwenzori, after the nearby mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...wild movement," Calhoun said. "A flurry of new programs were launched, mostly on zeal and peanut butter. Now things are beginning to settle down once again. We've come to realize that for 'x' number of kids, we do need secured facilities." "But the pendulum isn't going to whip all the way back to training school days," Calhoun adds quickly...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Substituting minibikes for hot cars | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...surprised that you find America's mood hopeful-sort of. A few years ago barbecued ribs were all the rage. Then we switched to a bitter diet of crow. Now that the indigestion has all but passed, peanut butter doesn't sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1977 | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...train roared north toward Jimmy's new home. Sam had bought his first dark blue suit for the Inaugural Ball, and was singing his new composition, The Jimmy Carter Special ("When I was a young'un I heard Jimmy say,/ 'Sure as there's peanut butter I'll be President some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: BOUND FOR FUN-AND GLORY | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Previous | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | 305 | 306 | 307 | 308 | 309 | 310 | 311 | 312 | 313 | 314 | 315 | 316 | 317 | 318 | 319 | Next