Word: butters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past 26 years, is National Dairy Month. Even if they do not touch it for the rest of the year, politicians from the President down to city clerks gamely quaff milk in public, and the $11 billion dairy industry unites to persuade everyone to consume more milk, butter, cheese and ice cream. While confronting the public with such unanimity, however, the dairy industry is divided by an argument about a very fundamental issue: Is the industry in trouble...
...Arendt has a romantic notion that it was simple to stand up to Hitler, and that those who did usually made Hitler back down. As an example, she cites the heroic refusal of the Danes to deliver up Jews. Confronted with Danish obstinacy, she writes, "Nazi toughness melted like butter." But the fact is that the Danes were able to protect the Jews because they had much more autonomy than most of the Nazi satellite nations; and they had been granted this autonomy by Hitler because they had not opposed the Nazi invasion...
...Faculty was certain that their defense of the President and his rotten butter was quite well taken but the undergraduate body was even more self-righteous. The rebellion, once over, was eulogized by one of the insurrectionaries in a Biblical epic called the Book of Harvard...
...Behold! bad and unwholesome Butter is served out unto us daily...
...Then arose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us, we pray the, Butter that stinketh...