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Word: loafing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...eyes, a voice that sounds like a jigsaw on slate, and a perpetual self-satisfied smirk. When challenged, he is too dumb to panic, bluffs fluently: "Would you believe that I can break eight boards with one karate chop? No? Would you believe three boards? Would you believe a loaf of bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Smart Money | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...filthy emergency shelter, a pair of nuns worked tirelessly to bathe a long line of Negro children in a commandeered garbage can. Some areas had to be cordoned off against looters. Many merchants gave supplies to the hungry; others battened on privation by charging $1 or more for a loaf of bread, $5 for a block of ice. A dozen high school students volunteered for the grimmest duty of all-sorting victims in the morgue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans: Up from the Deluge | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...wine a loaf of bread, and thou...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOO | 5/10/1965 | See Source »

...wine, a loaf of bread, a cow / Beside me grazing in the Harvard Yard / Oh would that Harvard Yard were paradise enow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS COW NEEDS A HOME | 5/1/1965 | See Source »

...Viet Cong's annual Hate American Day came last week, but except for a grenade concealed in a loaf of bread that went off in a Saigon suburb, injuring four Americans, the Communists were notably quiet all week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Closer Than Ever to Hanoi | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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