Word: oleo
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...found hundreds of nostalgic oddments. One man remembers a lapel button: "It showed Uncle Sam, and when you pulled the string. Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants posted a sign: USE LITTLE SUGAR AND STIR LIKE HELL. WE DON'T MIND THE NOISE. Radio stations did not give weather forecasts, lest they help the enemy launch an attack...
...American cheese 4½? 2 slices bread 3 1 oz. cooking oleo 1 potato chips, pickle 5 TOTAL COST: 13½? SELLING PRICE: low 45? high...
...united with a tearful grandmother and a white host of the saved. I went to the Esquire Theatre to see Black Velvet, a low budget stag that cost maybe forty fifty dollars in which Julie (Kim Alison) uses her behemoth body, cleverly concealed throughout in layers of underwear and oleo, to buy enough social mobility to climb from a truck stop waitress job to the high dive of the Las Vegas Starlite where Brad her boyfriend is shooting stills of her ample thighs and immense copacabanas. And everyone in the theatre was a 64 yr old Man with jowls like...
...with a London newspaper that may or may not be the Daily Worker. She gives this up to marry a rising young labor organizer, George Cook. At the same time, she nurtures incestuous feelings for her brother Tom, who is "like a painted Christ in a blue and pink oleo," a mystic, a pacifist and a lady-killer who bums around the countryside with a harpy seeking faith cures for her cancer. He gets to feel that he is something of a healer himself, and sees people who are not there. For a while, this unpleasant freak and sister Nellie...
...more graduate students, an even more luminous faculty. U.C.L.A. will also have more graduates, more dormitories, and solider courses to stave off the encircling "commuter" state colleges. ¶ By 1970: Davis (4,950) will hit 10,000, A changing cow college (cheer: "Bossie. cow cow, honey bee bee, oleomargarine, oleo butterine, alfalfa-hey!"), Davis will soon be a general university on a 3,000-acre farm-campus. Santa Barbara (3,504) will hit 10.500. Riverside (1,633) will hit 7,250. Converted from a citrus experimental station, it aimed to be a Western Oberlin, but will soon be bigger...