Word: rancid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other butterfat countries (e.g., Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia) the test plan got a rancid reception. "The effect of the present proposal," said New Zealand Ambassador Sir Leslie Munro, "is to export a domestic difficulty at the risk of grave injury to . . . smaller and weaker countries...
...Summit Again. If it was peace, it was peace with a rancid smell for American nostrils. Secretary of State Dulles wanted to signify his distaste by staying away, and thus disassociating the U.S. from any bargain made at Geneva. But Britain and France were putting heavy pressure on him to sit in on the capitulation of the West, and to give a U.S. guarantee that the terms would...
...some degree. But Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and his staff know that they will have to choose some way of dumping the surplus within the next few months. Chief reason: despite careful refrigeration and some turnover in the stock, the stored butter will soon begin to go rancid...
...last week called a "work conference" of dairymen and Agriculture Department experts to study the whole problem. Unless they can find a real remedy, the dairy industry will continue to lean on the federal Government, and the U.S. taxpayer will still have to buy butter and watch it turn rancid in Government ware houses. Said Llewellyn Watts Jr., president of the New York Mercantile Exchange: "It's beginning to look like the dairy farmer stands a good chance of just about ceasing to do business with the consumer...
...latter was a protest against the serving of rancid butter, which had been imported from Ireland. A Lampoon type of the time expressed his ire in a Biblical satire, which included the immortal line, "Behold our butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof...