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Word: loafed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though it will raise the price of a 20? loaf of white bread to 27?, two slices of Vio bread per meal will supply 25% of all the protein an adult needs for a day. More than 8,000,000 loaves have been test-marketed by Minneapolis' F. H. Peavey & Co., which will soon market V-10 flour nationally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...colt went to the post at Pimlico for the 81st running of the Preakness, Eddie went along just for the ride. He let Bold Ruler break for the lead, thought nothing of scrapping with sprint star Federal Hill all down the backstretch, worried only when his mount began to loaf after leading the pack past the turn for home. When Iron Liege made his move, Eddie took to the whip, and Bold Ruler went back to work. He was still pulling away when he won by two lengths. Behind him, outclassed Iron Liege had all he could do to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...unnoticed, in group singing and bevy dancing," but Allen made room for her in his vaudeville act. Portland later became the perky, indestructible nitwit on Allen's radio show. Of the early days, Allen fondly recalls that she not only fed him jokes but also quantities of salmon loaf and macaroni & cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sullivan's Travels | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...nearer the British and French got to their final pullout from Suez, the more boldly the Egyptians displayed resentment of their presence in Port Said. A British lieutenant was kidnaped in broad daylight, a major seriously wounded when a bomb wrapped in a bread loaf was tossed into a crowded staff car. When 600 British troops ransacked the Arab quarter and rounded up 1,000 men and boys in a dead-or-alive hunt for the lieutenant and his kidnapers, Egyptians carried out a dozen or more grenade, small-arms and even rocket attacks on British and French night patrols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Salvage Job | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...columns, Fryer charged that his editors had withheld one of his dispatches even from Worker staffers. He added: "It described certain excesses committed by Soviet troops. I saw the result of one of them. I saw an old man of 70 lying on the pavement dead, with a loaf of bread in his hand. He had been shot by a Soviet tank as he was coming away from a bread shop. I argued that there was no 'White terror' in Hungary. The rising against the Communist government of Hungary was supported by 99% of the people, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rebellion at the Worker | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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