Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour before a steaming platter of rice and meat without tasting a mouthful, drying great tears on the edge of his khafiyah (shawl headdress). Then he solemnly kissed his hosts on both cheeks and drove away. Out of sight of the Bedouin camp, he opened a tin of bully beef and wolfed it down...
...economist added: "The only item missing is rye bread; I am afraid we have to make do mainly with the National Loaf. We see very little veal nowadays, so my figure is in fact based on the cost of home-produced first quality beef...
...ringing up a fancy profit. Venezuelan Oil Czar Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, in a deal that would give Argentine State Trader Miguel Miranda a dose of his own medicine, was ready to barter 2 million barrels of Venezuela's high-priced oil for Miranda's expensive beef. Oil-starved Argentines thought the medicine not too bitter...
...controls had to be total, as in wartime. Consumers were just as unhappy for different reasons. The cost of meats and butter was not going back to the levels of two months ago, but was to be frozen-about 25% higher for pork products, 10% to 15% higher for beef, veal and lamb, 7½% higher for butter...
...professor examined her textbook, and decided that it was not. The Diocese of Cleveland agreed. The professor told Baldwin-Wallace's 163 Catholic students that they must resign from the college. "If my doctor tells me to eat beef," he explained, "and a waiter in a restaurant says he has only pork, I don't stay and fight with him. I just walk out." By week's end 65 Catholic students had packed their bags and left...