Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There he ran across a couple of old friends. He told them his mother was "resting easy," and ordered the roast beef blue-plate special (70?). The other customers-a couple of farmers, some railroad men in blue jeans-paid little attention. Two people went on playing the juke...
...Barry Stephens, an artists' agent who has looked at legs long enough to tell one Radio City Rockette from another, called a turn: "The scrawny, thin leg is out. A fuller calf and a longer thigh is the trend, and we men see a return to the 'beef trusters.' " Notable among his fuller-calfed, longer-thighed legs: Alice Faye's, Ann Miller's, Betty Grable's. Marlene Dietrich's? "Too skinny...
...Interisland shipping has been slowly reconstructed, although beef from southernmost Mindanao is still being flown to Manila because of the lack of refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain...
...What the beef meant was that Canada did not intend to send in a statement, get a polite "Thank you." Canada intended to have a voice in the peace settlements above the level of a mere memo-writer...
...literally at home among the carcass-luggers and breast-splitters who sweat in the packing houses, among dirty-faced kids playing in vacant lots. He was born among them, of Czech immigrants, 54 years ago. As a boy he joined gangs, played sandlot football. On school holidays he weighed beef in the packing houses. In 1924, after he had been a priest for six years, he was sent to St. Michael's in the Back of the Yards district as assistant pastor. Since the pastor of St. Michael's must be a Slovak, Father Ambrose never...