Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve in Britain have ever tasted white bread, but they soon will have the chance. Last week Prime Minister Churchill's government announced that April will bring the end of wartime controls which restrict bakers to a nutritious but not widely beloved brownish bread known as the "national" loaf...
Cigarettes drooping mournfully from the corners of their mouths, the French farmers clustered in the cornfield, waiting for the show to begin. A bottle of wine protruded from the hip pocket of one, a long loaf of bread from another. Professor Jay C. Hackleman, a University of Illinois agronomist on loan to the Mutual Security Agency, mounted the corn wagon. "Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon...
...Laffango, winner of the one-mile Champagne Stakes. At the far turn, Jockey Eric Guerin asked the big (1,150 Ibs.) grey colt for action. As usual, the Dancer responded with a surge of power, and by midstretch he had put away the leaders. Although the colt likes to loaf once he gets in front, a» warning wave of Jockey Guerin's bat sent him winging under the wire in an excellent 1:44⅓The victory, worth $38,525, boosted Native Dancer's earnings to $230,495, and made him the money-winningest two-year...
...Argentina. The country is poor, with nothing like Argentina's rich pampas. Until next year's congressional elections, the new leader is expected to move cautiously. But trouble is due for Chile, and it may not wait. "Ibanez has promised the people a six-foot loaf of bread for a peso," said a Santiago lawyer last week. "When the people find out that he can't deliver it, he's going to have to use a club instead of the loaf." Few doubt that The Horse will be ready to swing the club...
When he got back to the White House at week's end he told hurrying photographers who awaited him to take their time, take their time-that was all he had had for a week, he said-nothing to do but loaf. He went inside with the look of a man who had decided not to let it happen again...