Word: butters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost all the good effects result from the drug's unrivaled ability to pass through human skin like a hot knife through butter. And since so many other drugs dissolve readily in DMSO, they can hitch a ride with it and quickly penetrate the horny (outer) layers of the skin, thus reaching hitherto inaccessible areas...
Plainly, while not acceding to Republican warnings that he will have to choose between "guns and butter," Lyndon Johnson can do little to control defense costs. Thus the President let it be known last week that he was taking steps to spread the butter-domestic spending-more thinly in next year's budget. He summoned Budget Director Charles L. Schultze for a White House conference-the 29th since June-and ordered him to launch a "more rigorous and searching quest for savings" among Government agencies and to be "even tougher than usual" with requests for new or expanded programs...
...antiseptic highway stretches on and on and on. The green-and-white signs are the same. The little clusters of commerce-at-the-cloverleaf are eminently the same. Even the jargon on the menus of the identical restaurants ("char-broiled steak smothered in mushrooms sauteed in fresh country butter") is the same. Yet, happily enough, as the freeway driver highballs from one similar place to another, leisurely and nostalgic souls who want to sample the color and culture of America's side roads can do so readily...
...life in Russia as it really is. Kostyenko, one of the detectives, has been separated from his wife and daughter for years while waiting impatiently for the state to find him an apartment commodious enough to unite them. Telephones don't work; elevators crawl; a refrigerator freezes butter solid...
...over the expanding conflict: that the U.S. will be caught in an economic squeeze between the mounting costs of the war and the Administration's ever more ambitious domestic programs. Russell's dismay even caused him to mix his metaphors. "If we are able to have both butter and guns," he pronounced, "we will have accomplished the feat of having our cake and eating it too, which no government has heretofore been able to achieve...