Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snigger from Mother. About an hour before the mutes arrived, Mother's will was read. But Mother, "with her fondness for underdone beef and breezy unpleasantness," was to have the last word. Edna was to inherit on one condition: she must be earning ?5 a week within a month of the funeral. In her whole life, Edna had never earned anything but a snigger from Mother. But as the family smiled, Edna felt a quiet pleasure in her new-found sense of freedom...
...Irish sky, 152,000 people, including hunting types from a dozen lands, queued up at the bars and lounged beside the laurel bushes and lobelia borders of suburban Ballsbridge for Dublin's annual International Horse Show. The British visitors were happy to be in a land where prime beef and mutton were to be had for the asking (plus a deal of cash), and cheerfully paid as much as $200 weekly for a furnished flat within neighing distance of the grounds...
...Britain's plight increased the apprehension over sagging exports. Alarmists like Texas' Representative Eugene Worley, former chairman of a congressional subcommittee on foreign trade, suggested banning British films in the U.S. Said Worley: "Today it is films, tomorrow it might be wheat, cotton or beef...
...Cows are sacred to Hindus, who do not eat beef. Orthodox Hindus will not even wear leather shoes. Cow killing is prohibited in most princely states. It is not prohibited by British...
...high point came at the Quai d'Orsay when Evita watched stout, perspiring Argentine Ambassador Julio Victorica Roca sign a French-Argentine commercial treaty granting France a loan of 600,000,000 pesos ($150,750,000). It would mean a lot more wheat. It would mean, too, more beef. One French commentator quipped unkindly: "Madame Peron will be made palatable to the French workers and peasants by being dressed as a piece of Argentine frozen beef...