Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being turned down, but good credit risks had little trouble. Most dealers blamed last year's mammoth production and this year's poor weather for the sales slump. Said San Francisco's Ellis Brooks, a big Chevrolet dealer: "Everybody cries a little bit, even with a loaf of bread under...
...Macmillan refused to flirt with any idea of a tax cut. Instead, he increased taxes on company profits, tacked another few shillings on leaf tobacco to raise the price of a pack of cigarettes to 54?, and lifted the subsidy on bread (thus increasing the cost of a loaf to 12?). Mostly he aimed at forcing the public to keep its money in bank or sock instead of buying what should be exported...
...million cut in government spending. Items: cutbacks in construction programs for nationalized railroads and coal mines, delay in school building. To save another $106 million, he cut the government subsidy on bread and milk. Result will be to make British housewives pay one penny more for each loaf of bread and quart of milk. "Inflation must be mastered if our personal lives are not to be darkened by continual anxiety and uncertainty, and our country's position in the world seriously undermined," he warned...
...working intensely toward the goal in his own way. At whatever game he is playing -polo, croquet, iskiing, bridge, railroading, diplomacy, politics-he has a consuming urge to keep working, driving, doing. One reason for that urge may well be the fact that, if he had been inclined to loaf, he would not have had to turn a hand throughout his life. His father gave him many of the rewards men work for. But, as Averell Harriman's career shows, his father did not give him everything...
...Christian Middle Ages at first simply and starkly re-enacted Christ's burial. Later, the ceremonials of death became complicated, e.g., many families employed a "sin-eater" who took the dead man's sins upon himself by eating a loaf of bread and drinking a bowl of beer over the corpse. Embalmers, whose craft the book covers in the most intimate detail, advanced steadily (one notable medieval corpse was preserved in olive catsup). It was Leonardo Da Vinci, the father of modern embalming, who developed the method of intravenous injection which was adopted in 17th century England. There...