Word: loafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Russian giants somehow seem more gigantic than they do elsewhere. Here is one having a snack: "Tugarin Zmeevich, Son of the Dragon, put one loaf of bread in one cheek, another in the other cheek, and then he put a whole swan on his tongue, pushed it in with a pancake and swallowed everything in one gulp...
...Half Loaf. The Saunders testimony, even as it profoundly disturbed Israelis, profoundly intrigued Palestinian moderates, including Yasser Arafat. According to some reports, he is ready to accept a "half a loaf solution to the Middle East problem-a state on the West Bank and in Gaza, instead of all Palestine. Although they are still a distinctly minority voice, at least five dovish ministers in the Israeli Cabinet have called for a new policy under which Israel would announce its willingness to negotiate with any group of Palestinians that would recognize Israel, renounce the use of terrorism against it, and accept...
...cash to buy grain abroad. The ironic result is that although American consumers may be forced to pay more for food as a consequence of Soviet grain purchases, Soviet citizens will enjoy bread at artificially low fixed prices. They range in Moscow from 6? for a 1-lb. loaf of tasty black bread to 29? for a loaf made of the finest white flour, probably milled from U.S. grain...
...blunt fashion, Burns predicted that the Russian purchases will cause consumer prices to rise "sharply." Butz insisted that the prices will climb, if at all, only "nominally." Who is right may not become completely clear until fall, but the outcome could well influence not just the price of a loaf of bread but also the 1976 presidential campaign...
...Agriculture Department estimates that less than half of it will be required for domestic consumption. Thus out of an expected crop of some 2.2 billion bushels, only 800 million is needed at home. But as Secretary Butz repeatedly demonstrates by dramatically peeling three slices off an 18-slice loaf of bread, the farmers' income from selling wheat accounts for only one-sixth of the supermarket price of bread. Rising costs of labor, transportation, distribution and packaging are more to blame for high food costs than are any sales abroad...