Word: loafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three techniques unfamiliar to the American cook. The book's highlight is a 50-page section on making genuine French breads with all-purpose American flour. The basic process takes seven hours at the very least. But anyone who perseveres will be rewarded by the characteristic chewy loaf with the crackly crust that Frenchmen can acquire for a two-minute trip to the local boulangerie. Other lengthy sections in Julia II deal with the production of charcuterie (sausages) and puff pastry...
Unfortunately Doyle Dane Bernbach, the agency that created the VW and the Alka-Seltzer commercials, has overdone a good thing. Mrs. Poached Oysters has returned with a heart-shaped meat loaf, and one of the latest VW ads is a singularly unfunny parody of the old Mr. Wizard show. The program, featuring a science teacher and a questioning kid, died so long ago that few viewers will get the joke. Most of the successful minidramas are in the self-spoofing tradition pioneered by the old Bert and Harry spots for Piel's beer, which grew out of the routines...
...chair, a test tube, a loaf of bread...art is a mathematician's formula, a philosopher's way of life, any man's dreams...
...through certain sentences (still clearly legible) that White House staffers found objectionable. It was not censorship they wanted, the aides explained. They just did not think that the U.S. public needed to know that President Nixon mixed himself a martini every night before dinner, that the Nixons love meat loaf and hate calf's liver, that Pat Nixon "at times appears to lack a good appetite" and that she was in the White House eleven months before she visited the chefs in the kitchen...
Doggedly, Heath kept to his own path, convinced that housewives were heeding his message. If Labor came back to power, he cried, its tax policies would guarantee more inflation. "We would have a 3-shilling loaf, a shilling bus fare and a shilling telephone call, and we would have to pay for them out of a 10-shilling pound," he declared. In Leicester, he evoked the specter of "the poor, the penniless and the housewives" facing across-the-board price boosts?milk up twopence a pint, jam up 8 pence a pound, sausage up 9 pence, coal...