Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bread & Butter. To perk up sagging sales of butfer, the American Dairy Association made a deal with International Milling Co. of Minneapolis to include 25? toward the purchase of a pound of butter in every 5-lb., 10-lb., or 25-lb. sack of International's Robin Hood flour (a 50? coupon is in every...
...third cast, Ike hooked a ten-inch rainbow trout, and by noontime he and Nielsen had pulled in a dozen. At that point Ike took complete command of the party. Driving to a nearby ranch house, he "borrowed" from the flustered housewife a slab of bacon, a pound of butter, a large paper bag, cornmeal, salt & pepper. Thus equipped, he moved on to a campsite where he built a fire and set the bacon frying in a skillet. While it fried, he put cornmeal, salt & pepper in the bag, and shook the cleaned fish in it. "Never put batter...
...even the leisurely perusal of a newspaper. In the past the Herters spent frequent holidays in South Carolina at Mrs. Herter's family's 12,000-acre game preserve (Herter is a crack shot). Nowadays they occasionally get away for a few 'days at Mountainy Pound Club near Bangor, Maine, but far more frequently go to their comfortable, 150-year-old country house, in Millis, or their summer home, on a bluff overlooking yacht-filled Manchester harbor-both within an hour's drive of Boston...
This week one statistic told the whole impressive story: West Berlin food authorities handed out the two-millionth parcel to a needy East German. Thus, within a fortnight, more than 10% of the whole Soviet zone population have defied or evaded their government and risked arrest for a ten-pound package of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk...
When fall comes, the students will go right on with such chores. Though they will study the usual prep-school courses and get their share of skiing, riding and playing, they will also plant, sew, dig irrigation ditches, scrub floors, haul wood, tend horses, clear paths, pound nails, rake leaves, paint walls, and do any other manual labor the Holdens can think...