Word: butters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost 1,500. At the big Marienfelde refugee barracks, the registration clerks were swamped, and West Berlin authorities had to charter extra planes to haul the escapees out to the West. One reason was the new food shortage in East Germany, which had brought tighter rationing of potatoes and butter, new crackdowns by Red Boss Walter Ulbricht. But the overriding impulse that sent East Germans by the hundreds surging across the frontier was a cold fear inspired by Nikita Khrushchev and his threat to provoke a new Berlin crisis...
...touring the city, Adenauer called a huge press conference, took pointed notice of the spate of refugees. "There seems to be a growing panic in the Soviet zone," declared the doughty old Chancellor, suggesting that West Germany might soon offer the hapless East German people 5,000 tons of butter to raise their ration. "The latest in a series of Western provocations," sputtered East Berlin's Neues Deutschland...
...Britain's biggest stumbling block on the road to the Common Market is the Commonwealth. Hard est hit by any change in the status quo would be New Zealand, virtually Britain's farm, which in recent years has shipped as much as 92% of its exports of butter, cheese, meat and wool to Britain. Australia and Canada are also worried, but less so, since they are less dependent on purely agricultural exports. India, Malaya, Pakistan and the Commonwealth partners in Africa are, in fact, plugging for the Common Market as a great new arena in which to sell...
Louis Philippe as Sargantua. The lithograph was a comparatively new art in those days, but it quickly became Daumier's bread and butter. He began turning out political cartoons for an ardently antiroyalist magazine called La Caricature. One cartoon portrayed King Louis Philippe as Gargantua gobbling up every last sou in France. For such indiscretions Daumier spent six months in prison...
...Post because of its "slanted reporting"-before plunging into the mail. He tries to get home by 7, sips two or three bourbons and water while helping prepare dinner (usually steak). He fancies himself a cook, but sometimes lets his tastes run away with him. He once used peanut butter to the point that his sons dared him to shave with it; Barry did, "although I smelled like hell for a week." Later, on the nights when he is not out speaking, Goldwater may listen to records (New Orleans jazz) on a booming stereo rig he wired for himself...