Word: bacon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...babies under his care have a spoon of thin oatmeal or barley when they are but two days old. At ten days vegetables are added; at 14 days, strained meats; at 17 days, strained fruits; at weekly intervals thereafter, orange juice, eggs, soups, mashed banana, custard puddings and "crisp bacon" (though the bacon has to be mashed with a fork...
...Selling. But in a state that has routinely accepted extraordinary federal aid, that has expected its Congressmen and Senators to bring home the bacon, it is hard to talk against the joys of federal aid. Art Langlie realized the difficulty in February 1955 when, invited to the White House, he was urged by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams to run for the Senate against Magnuson. He returned home to consider, eventually wrote out an involved "I will not run" statement. Asked Evelyn Langlie, when he read it to her: "Why don't you just say you're quitting...
...roster of additional composers, largely American contemporaries, include: Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, Kirke Mechem, and Ernst Bacon...
...when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and made it profitable to keep huge tracts of land in cultivation. Even so, a rich planter might clear no more than a 1% profit annually. A representative weekly food ration for a slave was "a peck of meal, three pounds of bacon, and a pint of molasses." The housing rule of thumb on the plantations was six Negroes to one room, usually 16 ft. by 18 ft. in size, but the log cabin Lincoln grew up in was meaner than some slave quarters...
...Flaherty's chosen people are the Aran islanders, who live "in primitive simplicity, as their ancestors had lived for thousands of years." Turf and cow dung are the fuel, kelp dragged from the sea is the fertilizer; potatoes or fish are the food. A rasher of bacon represents luxury, and a dry cow may make the difference between starvation in winter and life for another year...