Word: larders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milwaukee, in the little (pop. 1,190) town of Hartland, pupils and faculty members of the Arrowhead High School paraded into an apartment for which they had paid the $55 month's rent out of student-council funds, set to work scrubbing the floors, hanging curtains, stocking the larder. Soon a grateful Hungarian butcher, his wife and five children moved in. For Otto Bauernhuber, who just a few weeks before was cutting beef to feed his fellow rebels in Budapest, the warmth of new friendship and the brightness of his new home were marvelous if bewildering realities...
...Deputy Prime Minister has his ornithological facts wrong: butcherbirds (shrikes) do not eat worms, nor do they eat and run. Instead, it is their practice to impale insects, field mice and small birds on thorns, and later return to the natural larder to eat at leisure...
Overflowing Larder...
...Fine Arts in St. Louis, got a fellowship to Harvard. He had his first Manhattan show in 1940, and the critics hailed his down-to-earth pictures of Midwestern life as evidence of a promising new talent. But this still did not put food in the artist's larder. After war service as an Army combat artist and two years in Italy on a Fulbright grant, Radulovic came back to the U.S., had to take a job as a private detective to support himself in a Manhattan studio...
...Communist Deutschlands Stimme (Voice of Germany). Any East German who accepts the vile "beggar packs" of free U.S. food, wrote Hans, should be severely punished. Last week Communist officials took hungry Hans at his word, fired him for refusing to give up three Eisenhower parcels hidden in his own larder...