Word: loaf
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...stands fragrantly like a bride at the altar, awaiting the embrace of fresh butter and an osculation of jam. It is a loaf of bread. Not the cellophaned Kleenex sold at the supermarket but a homemade loaf, crusty, crumbly and a succor for the eater...
...simple homemade loaf can cost -not including labor cost-about half as much to produce as the presliced, vitaminized, super-enriched, deflavorized belly wadding advertised on TV. It can not only have toothsome flavor and infinite variety, but may represent a return to simple joy, as raising one's own corn or tomatoes does, or planting a pear tree, or hunting wild berries for jelly...
Another old law states that if one doesn't get the full loaf, settle for half a loaf. The reformers learned and obeyed that law, but all they say they have gotten from the department was a few crumbs...
...Nickerson's great concern these days seems to be Harvard, not oil. He says he likes being away from the pressures of business, spends his time reading, caring for his house, sculling at the Cambridge Boat Club, and cultivating a garden. "I don't like to loaf much," he says...
...manifesto "Infirm and Unfair." Slimmer than during his two terms as Prime Minister and reflectively puffing on a pipe, Wilson lashed out 'against inflation: eggs up 99% since 1970, cheese 78%, chicken 69% and bread will rise to just half a penny less than the celebrated "three-shilling loaf that Heath in 1970 had said would be the inevitable result if Labor were returned to power...