Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's lightweight crew team are extremely fond of M and Ms, of all skinnifying foods. On the weekend of October 11, the members of the crew selected to compete in the Women's Invitational Regatta in South Hadley. Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL says. "After weigh-in, anything is game for eating." The crew, which has 130 pounds as a maximum weight limit, usually is chaned to cans of tuna fish and Tab in the spring to meet the scale's demands--and that...
...Democratic Party of Jimmy Carter that paved the way for Reagan's victory. It was Carter and the Democrats who whipped up an anti-Soviet fever with the hypocritical "human rights" campaign. It was under the Peanut Boss that the resurgent Klan and Nazis executed the Greensboro massacre. And it was this "friend of labor" who slapped striking miners with the Taft-Hartley injunction in 1978. That's why we call on workers to break with the Democrats and build a workers party to fight for a workers government...
Picnic lunches ranged from peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to three-course meals served on white tablecloths. Sipping imported wine from crystal goblets, Maria Siciliano of Wellesley College described the day as "nice and decadent...
...version was even more generous. But the united front usually exhibited by farm-state legislators, in which each protects the others' commodities, showed signs of weakness. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Jesse Helms of North Carolina had his staff draw up a bill that mainly protected tobacco and peanuts, important products of his state. Senator Robert Dole of Kansas quietly worked on his own version, eventually adopted by the committee, which doubled Reagan's proposed subsidies for wheat and corn. Reagan further fractured farm unity by promising Southern Democrats, whose votes he needed for his economic package, that...
Helms was among those voting to trim the milk price supports. The next day, when peanut programs came up for a vote, he found milk-state Senators and others lining up against him. Agriculture Committee Member Richard Lugar, a Republican and former mayor of Indianapolis, came close to defeating both the committee's proposal to raise peanut price supports from $435 to $596 a ton and the system of allotments, which are Government franchises that limit the acreage on which peanuts can be planted. Helms was finally able to save the price support increase, but not the allotment program...