Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale relay quartet of Larom Munson, Bill Farnsworth, Blum, and Sheff was two yards ahead of Dartmouth, when Coach Bob Kiphuth ordered Sheff to loaf through the last 100 yards...
...sweltering day last week Publisher Franciscode Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello ushered the President of the Republic and other wilted dignitaries into a cable car for the dizzy ride to the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain. The occasion: formal inauguration of Rio's first television station. High above the shining crescents of the capital's white beaches, the party sipped champagne, listened to speeches and to songs by a choir from one of Publisher Chateaubriand's child-care centers. Across the vast reaches of Brazil, Chateaubriand's radio stations and newspapers proclaimed the significance...
...career as reporter and editor, he borrowed 3,000,000 cruzeiros in 1925 and bought his first newspaper, Rio's O Jornal. Generally regarded as Brazil's top reporter, he competed with his own staffers for scoops. He tangled with almost everybody. "I'm like a loaf of yeast bread," he liked to say. "The more they knead me the higher I rise." He always carried a revolver and sometimes even drew it, though his aim was so bad that in one scrape he fired at an antagonist and shot his chief editorial writer...
...familiar "Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread . . ." Arberry writes...
...loaf, the purest heart of wheat...