Word: butters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assets: 1961 Chevrolet, $1,000; home in Fond du Lac, $7,200 (minus a $6,000 mortgage); cash, $500. In fact, since he quit his $125-a-week machinist's job to campaign in July, he, his wife and daughter "have been eating bean soup and peanut-butter sandwiches"; and he borrowed $1,750 from his campaign fund, and $1,500 from the bank to tide him over until he could start collecting his $30,000 annual congressional salary this month...
...kits were to contain five or six kinds of cookies, including brownies, oatmeal cookies, and special "brainpower" cookies, crackers, peanut butter, raisins, fruit, a panic button, and for 50 cents extra, a special "Knowledge Hammer," designed by an Italian scientist, for wedging facts into the brain. Similar kits have reportedly been sold in 22 colleges across the country...
Roosevelt, a six-term Congressman, plans to campaign "not as a liberal Democrat but as a man with a bread and butter program for getting things done." He has the backing of Governor Pat Brown, and will have the support of the state's regular Democratic organization. But Sam Yorty is an old hand at knocking over organizations...
Founded by Hugh Mason and William Fortnum, a footman to Queen Anne, the store has been, in fact, a running footnote to British history. Fortnum's supplied Wellington's officers with hams and butter during the Napoleonic Wars and shipped 250 Ibs. of concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale and her wounded in the Crimea. At home, Fortnum picnic hampers have always been de rigueur fare at Derby Day, Eton-Harrow cricket matches or an Oxford-Cambridge boat race. Dickens praised Fortnum's provender, and Benjamin Disraeli, after a hard day in Parliament...
...50th birthday of a serving lady is a closely observed phenomenon in the House dining room. To an optimist, it may presage the transformation of a tight-lipped grapefruit juice-flavored lady into a placid and friendly peanut butter sandwich...