Word: bacons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Does the battle of the sexes boil down to nothing more than who brings home the bacon? In Austin, Texas, to encourage women to organize locally for child-care centers and improved salaries and working conditions, Women's Lib Spokeswoman Gloria Steinem seemed to be saying so. Said Gloria: "I think Jacqueline Onassis has a very clear understanding of marriage. I have a lot of respect for women who win the game with rules given you by the enemy...
...some of the gray days of February and March on tours. Four days in Rome are offered for $60, Athens for $100. Even for those who do not travel, Europe is in evidence. In Strasbourg's new suburban supermarkets, shoppers pick their way through oranges from Spain, smoked bacon from the Black Forest, mortadella from Bologna, gingersnaps from England and coffee-flavored hopjes from Holland...
...spending has sent a huge amount of vagabond greenbacks roaming round the world; nobody is certain of the total, but estimates range from $60 billion to $80 billion. An excess of dollars, like an excess of bacon, drives down the price. The more so in this case as many of the people who hold the dollars have lost faith in their value. The dollar holders note that a long series of U.S. moves-taxes on purchases of foreign securities, for example, and controls on bank lending abroad-have failed to put America's international payments back into balance...
Could it be that some clever yahoo in top circles has thought to repay the Swedes for their temerity in protesting the escalated brutality of our recent bombings in S.E. Asia by reducing their most prestigious institution to absurdity? Ernst Bacon Professor Emeritus Syracuse University
Osborne House, located opposite Common Market headquarters in Brussels, is a shop that specializes in providing British delicacies for Englishmen who would like a homey respite from the rigorous riches of continental cuisine. There can be found Frank Cooper's Vintage Oxford Marmalade, shortback Wiltshire bacon and Gentlemen's Relish, as well as Stilton, Cheshire, Caerphilly and Wensleydale cheeses. Until recently Osborne House also carried Melton Mowbray pork pies and bangers (sausages), not to mention Rose's Lime Juice, without which no true Englishman can survive abroad...