Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet purchases should have little, if any, impact, however, on prices at the supermarket. With grain prices so depressed, it would take a huge jump in the farm cost of wheat, for example, to add even 20 or 30 to the price of a loaf of bread. Stung most by the Russians' ploy will be the big grain speculators, who were selling grain futures contracts short this spring and summer in the expectation that prices would fall even lower. The Soviet shortfall changed all that and taught the speculators-as well as Washington officials-a little more about...
...Carrie McCully, just 18 and a freshman this fall at Brown University, Bread Loaf was a chance to meet others like herself who "feel passionate about their writing." Then there was Dr. Theodore Badger, 77, a ruddy-faced professor emeritus at the Harvard Medical School, who began his writing career at the age of 70 with a column in Medical Dimensions magazine. Said he: "I just wanted to come and steep myself in the intellectual atmosphere...
...course the students all secretly hope that they will be "discovered" at a conference. Occasionally that dream comes true, as it did for soft-spoken Tom Gavin, now an assistant professor at Middlebury. He first went to Bread Loaf as a contributor in 1973, with 75 pages of manuscript under his arm. "What I needed was someone to say 'Hey, you're on the right track,' " recalls Gavin. He was duly encouraged and returned the next year with 125 pages, which Gardner then analyzed, suggesting a revision in the rhythm. This year Tom Gavin was back...
Danehy added that some police officers loaf on the job. "I want 90 cents worth of work for every dollar we give them," he said...
...time..." you start to ramble, priming for the punch line and nervously checking other faces, for you realize that now no one else is talking. You get to the punch line, but no one laughs. "I guess you had to be there," you mumble into your untouched vienna loaf...