Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors and from neighbors who preferred its taste and texture to that of the day's spongy, artificially fortified bread. Then Maggie Rudkin made a fateful decision. She had no manufacturing training or experience, no capital, and a product that sold for 25?, v. only 10? for a loaf of regular bread. "Fortunately," she says, "I was too ignorant to know about these matters." She put a loaf of bread and some butter in a package, took a train to Manhattan and walked into Charles & Co., specialty grocers. There, she generously buttered a slice, thrust it at the manager...
...smooth-running national organization, Presidential Aspirant John Fitzgerald Kennedy keeps a hungry eye on every likely delegate to the Democratic National Convention, strikes the pose of a man picking up entire state delegations in a dead-sure grip. But last week Jack Kennedy settled for a half-loaf of delegates in California (81 votes) and a half-grip on Kansas (21 votes), while his hungry-eyed associates insisted that this was all he ever wanted...
Brown, another 25% if the Kennedy bandwagon got rolling fast; Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington and Hubert Humphrey were reckoned at about 10% apiece, with no known support for Lyndon Johnson. After studying the results, Kennedy finally bowed out of the California primary last week-taking his half-loaf instead of stirring the wrath of California Democratic leaders, who want to avoid an expensive, party-splitting fight...
...well off is the average German that a recent survey showed that only one man in three and one woman in six now knows what a loaf of bread costs. There are so many more jobs than workers that Bonn's Labor Ministry plans to bring in 100,000 Italian, Spanish and Greek seasonal laborers this year. Bonn's prediction for 1960: another 6% increase in the nation's G.N.P...
...mirror to symbolize brightness and joy, bowls fashioned out of crystal candy to symbolize the sweetness of marriage. But the most significant of the objects before the 40-year-old Shahanshah of Iran and his third bride, Farah Diba, 21, was the Symbol of Plenty, a ten-foot-long loaf of plain bread on which were written the words: "May Allah give you a male heir...