Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owner of a collection of some 5,000 cook books (in all languages), which he has been assembling since his 18th year. He carries on considerable correspondence with dealers around the world, and has turned a nice profit on some of his choicer finds. His favorite dish: beef a la Stroganoff ("a very fast dish once you have everything...
Army troops at parade rest, Scouts (boy & girl), and high-school cadets were to line the route of march from the airport to the White House, and Government workers were to be dismissed at 4 p.m. on arrival day-to beef up the sidewalk crowds. All in all, on paper at least, the party would be as hearty a greeting as Washington had ever given anybody-if the citizens would only show up and yell...
Toasted in Absence. At 9 o'clock the Foreign Ministers, each with ten members of his staff, met again as guests of Generalissimo Stalin. They fed sumptuously on caviar, out-of-season cucumbers, fish salad, hot zakuski (hors d'oeuvres), consomme, fish, turkey, chicken, roast beef, suckling pig, ice cream, coffee and liqueurs. They drank some 20 toasts, in vodka, white and red wine, champagne. One toast, proposed by Stalin, was for an absent man: President Truman. After dinner, the guests saw The Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27), a gentle Russian fairytale film with only a faint overlay...
...dining hall, Vag's momentary Plympton Street apprehensions were allayed. Above the chatter about Chem A, exam schedules, and the end of the Wellesley spring vacation, could be heard the magic words Durocher, MacPhail and Williams. Even Cambridge was a part of America. Hastily digesting his chipped beef on toast, Vag raced into the House courtyard, scooped up an imaginary ground ball, and made a perfect throw to first base. He made a mental note to cut his Tuesday lab, and maybe his 10 o'clock class as well. After all, it was opening...
...hemispheric game of making friends (and thus influencing peoples), Argentina is one up on the U.S. As a result, Bolivia, already on a diet of Argentine beef and wheat, now looks to Buenos Aires for much of its folding money...