Word: loafing
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...first met Bud (Burdick)," Lederer explains, "when we were both fellow students at the Bread-loaf writers' conference, the summer session of Middlebury College. Then I went out to the Pacific with the Navy, and he won a Rhodes Scholarship. We met again 10 years later, just after he had been in the Pacific doing an article for Holiday magazine. We both had ideas about American diplomacy, and so we decided to write a book together about...
...hundred dollars for here, and a few days later a young woman would come over--they use women more over there--with a package wrapped in brown paper about this big." Here he chopped with his hands, cutting off a piece of air the size of a large loaf of bread. He continued, "You'd unwrap it, and there would be a stack of ruble notes. You would both look at it for a moment or so and then wrap it up again and march off to a bank and deposit...
Bake at 350° for 40 to 50 minutes until golden brown. Brush with soft butter and sprinkle with salt. Yield: one round loaf...
press the bricks (lumberjack language)-to loaf...
...frame, carrying his eccentricities with him until fame had transformed them into legend. He seldom washed, changed his shirt or had a haircut; he could live for hours, even days, on cigarettes and coal black coffee, then eat twelve eggs, two quarts of milk and an entire loaf of bread in one breakfast. Wild-eyed and forever talking with all the intensity of his written prose, he sprayed everyone in range with reservoirs of spittle from the corners of his mouth. Some thought him ludicrous, but thousands worshiped the ground his feet never quite touched. Sooner or later he accused...