Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested in a celestial view of Moscow as it is in a thick, radioactive mantle 600 miles overhead, which overwhelmed the sensory devices of earlier satellites. Explorer IV's extra beef-it is seven pounds heavier than Explorer III-went into instruments custom-built to examine this ionized belt, which may reach all the way to the sun and could well thwart mortal designs on outer space. Within minutes of launch, Explorer IV was wheeling with the other moons, 170 miles up at the lowest, 1,400 miles up at the highest, sending back vital intelligence on this cosmic...
...young Bas Wie remembered the happier days of the bighearted Australians, who not only drove the Japanese away, but gave him candy, bully beef and rides in their trucks, until it was time for them to go home. One night in August 1946 Bas Wie thought of his old friends again as he nursed the raw bruise on his belly where the cook had, as he did so often, just kicked...
...breakfast. Typical breakfast -fruit-oranges, bananas, local berries, other fruit in season. Cereal-oatmeal, or cold dry, according to season. Heavy cream. Meat, fish, eggs-corned beef hash with eggs; fresh fried blackfish with salt pork; ham or bacon with eggs; creamed chicken (left over) on toast, etc. Honey or marmalade on toast made over open fire...
...island; raw carrots and celery; tinned lobster, crab or anchovies; broiled giblets, etc., or pâateé de foie gras. Hot hors d'oeuvres on Japanese habachi, making blinis (small pancakes) for caviar and sour cream, broiled mushrooms, etc. Soup-tinned (wide choice) or from chicken or beef stock we have made. Or broiled lobster tails or cold boiled fish with mayonnaise. Entree-meat (generally chops, beefsteak, chicken or veal cutlet) or fish (lake trout au court bouillon), Chops and steak broiled over open fire. Chicken similarly broiled or else boiled with rice. Veal cutlets dredged in flour...
...decided too many valuable executive man-hours were lost at trade meetings. And as they spend more time on business, executives have reached some surprising conclusions about themselves. After a critical study of his company, President Hugh F. Colvin of Pasadena's Consolidated Electrodynamics knew just how to beef up his operation: he moved down to become an operating man again as senior vice president in charge of four fast-growing but troublesome divisions, while Board Chairman Philip S. Fogg took over the president's policymaking chair. Says Fogg: "This is what the recession does to your thinking...