They then built a small mushroom farm in a tub, and when this worked, they moved on to a bigger tub, and so on.

It was as if, Attlee recalled, I had offered them margarine instead of butter.

The tub shape is smaller and deeper than is common in Western homes.

They pledged to donate ten cents to the zoo for every tub of Knut sweets it sold.

Lastly, they dipped his head in a tub filled with excrement in an attempt to obtain the information they wanted.

And though I'm a rock star, I just want to assure you that none of my wishes will include a hot tub.

And so, as a child, I saw jam disappear from the breakfast table, then margarine disappeared, then bread became too expensive, then milk became rationed.

Water immersion in a tub could last up to 12 seconds, no more than two hours a day, for up to thirty days in a row.

This is often indicated by a graphic of an open tub, with the number of months written inside (e.g., 12M means use the product within 12 months of opening).

So it might be that, if you went to a French restaurant and you looked through it and you found they only had margarine and they didn't have butter, you could say, Ah, I see what's wrong with them.

Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, a member of a British constitutional commission, recalled that when he suggested the United States presidential system as a model to Indian leaders, they rejected it with great emphasis. I had the feeling that they thought I was offering them margarine instead of butter.

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