TIME
When bakers in Portland, Ore. went on strike last week, some housewives baked their own loaves. The Associated Press quoted one housewife as saying: “My bumpy, sagging loaves looked like three middle-aged matrons who’d lost their corsets.” The New York Times, which runs plenty of corset ads but believes that some expressions are not fit to print in its news columns, carefully deleted the words ‘who’d lost their corsets.”
More Must-Reads from TIME
- The Rise of a New Kind of Parenting Guru
- The 50 Best Romance Novels to Read Right Now
- Mark Kelly and the History of Astronauts Making the Jump to Politics
- The Young Women Challenging Iran’s Regime
- How to Be More Spontaneous As a Busy Adult
- Can Food Really Change Your Hormones?
- Column: Why Watching Simone Biles Makes Me Cry
- Get Our Paris Olympics Newsletter in Your Inbox
Contact us at letters@time.com