Word: loafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even provided the U.S.S.R. with $750 million in credit to make the deal possible. Thus the Soviets made off with one-fourth of the total U.S. wheat crop for a cool $ 1 billion-causing shortages and price rises that are still unchecked. Asked last week about reports that a loaf of bread from American wheat costs less in Moscow than in Washington, D.C., Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz admitted that the U.S. had been "burned" and added: "If we are burned the first time, why, maybe they did it. But if we get burned twice, that is our fault...
...form of higher food prices, although probably less than they suspect. Grain accounts for only about one-sixth of the retail price of bread. The increase in wheat prices since the spring of 1972 has added 1? or 2? to the retail price of a 1-lb. loaf of white bread. Other wheat-based products have gone up still more...
...Party meeting that his wife Mary was "almost in tears" as she watched "a little old lady moving from one part of a shop to the other, pricing all the things she wanted." The woman finally walked out "clutching a pathetic little plastic package of two slices of meat loaf...
...something to do," says John Fogarty Jr., a Knoxville, Tenn., jewelry-store owner who camps with three of his children in a 25-ft. motor home on one of the Gatlinburg complexes. "Here we can do anything we want to. Play tennis, ride trails, play shuffleboard, swim, or just loaf around. The kids meet lots of other young people, both the people who are staying here and those who just come for a short time. You meet and make friends. It's the best recreation in the world." It can also be a long-term investment. "I want...
...ever penned, director Kahn has helped the low-comedy scenes along with a considerable amount of bawdy byplay--such as the masturbatory caressing of a staff, the tossing about of a large rubber phallus, the snagging of a staff in a codpiece, the goosing of a tart with a loaf of bread, and the kneeing of an officer in the groin by a brothel-keeper. Ronald Frazier is amusing enough as Elbow, the malapropistic constable (a type better managed in the Dogberry of Much Ado About Nothing); and so is the clowning tapster Pompey of Rex Everhart, who has been...