Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason the Government has had to buy so much is that cottonseed prices have not been competitive with other vegetable oils such as soybean, peanut and flaxseed. Soybean oil, at 11? a Ib. v. 15? for cottonseed oil, has captured most of the market for margarine, salad dressings and shortening. While lower cottonseed prices might slow down soybean sales, the Agriculture Department hopes that demand for both will pick up. Some bullish factors: 1) the prospect of marketing quotas on the 1954 cotton crop...
...layer cake," the book abounds in silly metaphors, terming Christ "the penicillin of Salvation" and the Incarnation "God's rescue operation." His attempts at jazzy writing are equally dismal, whether describing a "Warm Fire" home (one in which "the smallest children pray as naturally as they reach for the peanut butter") or declaring that the Israelites, with "breaks. . . went through all the red lights to the Promised Land...
...have placed your statement in the heart of the proverbial peanut...
...Hour. As Beirut buzzed with the news that the stricken Champollion was about to break up, 25,000 curious townspeople streamed out to the sand dunes. Lebanese troops cleared a way to the water's edge and set up box seats for Beirut's dignitaries; Coke and peanut vendors did a roaring trade...
Twice more Baltaji ran the perilous course, gathering up all that remained of the Champollion's company, including the captain. The massed spectators let out a yell of triumph that drowned the boom of the surf. Then they walked home, leaving the twilit dunes littered with peanut shells, cigarette butts, candy wrappers and Coca-Cola bottles...