Word: loafing
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...want to see all the warm, azure seas and lie beside them on the white sands. We want to travel to all the continents and to most all of the countries. We want to sleep late or get up early, without compulsion to do either. ... we want to loaf and travel as long as it amuses...
Rising dough. She found that she had to sell her bread for 25? a loaf, more than double the amount charged by the large bakeries. But she counted on the Pepperidge taste to carry the Pepperidge price...
...loaves an hour. With it, Mrs. Rudkin expects to double her business to $3,000,000 this year, net about $300,000. Though she is now mass producing bread herself, she has made only one grudging concession to the mass market. She has started to sell a loaf already sliced...
...Homer to read when he regained his sight. After midnight, Langley roamed the city, pulling a cardboard box on the end of a long rope. He inspected garbage cans for food, begged meat scraps from a kindly butcher, sometimes walked all the way to Brooklyn to get a loaf of stale bread. On rare occasions he darted into a liquor store, after first peering carefully through the door, and bought a pint of whiskey-"for medicinal purposes...
...simple story well told is the wheaten loaf of literature. There are traces of machine-kneading in both these short novels, but the ingredients are honest and the crust is tasty. Anybody who feels a trifle tired of classics, biographies, soothsayers and trash might enjoy either, with a cup of milk...